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Workgroup"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEj1MxjpGI1IgDxjqnPtGJztIoN83zfI7duCQHRqK-kYVaXEybjW_s8aWtaOkE-t0UXWRBuON17gwam1YQukkMgY1ExlLO6wWloUMhcA0bAEBRQOwV6pgp3zIPWFPTrHKQuUWmvvq_qloj0\/s1436\/budget+does+not+reflect+our+priorities+Cambridge+MA+Day+060921.png\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"956\" data-original-width=\"1436\" height=\"266\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEj1MxjpGI1IgDxjqnPtGJztIoN83zfI7duCQHRqK-kYVaXEybjW_s8aWtaOkE-t0UXWRBuON17gwam1YQukkMgY1ExlLO6wWloUMhcA0bAEBRQOwV6pgp3zIPWFPTrHKQuUWmvvq_qloj0\/w400-h266\/budget+does+not+reflect+our+priorities+Cambridge+MA+Day+060921.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EBy Dylan Rodríguez, Professor, Department of Media and Cultural Studies, UC Riverside\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003EDear Chancellor Wilcox and UCR Administrative Colleagues:\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003EPlease accept this note as my formal response to\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1TqWX0ObZJCPiF3glpFNjZsXwljaXtYhAeCH5i6opYg8\/edit?usp=sharing\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003Eyour invitation to join\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;the Chancellor’s Campus Safety Workgroup. I am writing to contextualize my response with a concise analysis of the UC Riverside Campus Safety Task Force’s “\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/chancellor.ucr.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/rcwecm761\/files\/2021-03\/CSTF%20report%20final%203.18.21.pdf\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003EReport and Recommendations\u003C\/a\u003E” of March 18, 2021, which was finalized after a mere three months of deliberation. I note that Chancellor Wilcox circulated a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/insideucr.ucr.edu\/announcements\/2021\/03\/22\/campus-safety-task-force-and-next-steps\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003Ecampus memo\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;four days later that declared his unqualified endorsement of the Task Force document, claiming that “for many years, we have been striving at UC Riverside to redefine campus safety in a way that addresses the needs of our diverse community.”\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003EI write to you as a researcher and scholar who has published widely on the topic of United States policing over more than two decades. My work pays particular attention to the historical conditions of police violence that consistently create asymmetrical casualties among targeted and criminalized communities, bodies, and geographies.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003EWhile the UCR Task Force Report acknowledges that “systemic racism exists in U.S. society and in policing, and must be eliminated wherever possible,” its nine recommendations fail to challenge the fundamental centrality of police power to the university’s infrastructure and everyday operations. At first glance, the Task Force appears to advocate a modest downscaling of the UCRPD’s campus presence. Upon further analysis, however, its proposals cultivate an\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Eexpansion\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003Eof police power through the deputization of campus staff and administrators to act as civilian surrogates of the police department. Perhaps most revealingly, campus employees in specific units (including Student Affairs, Human Resources, and the Title IX office) are expected “to pair and cross-train [with] public safety personnel [e.g. UCRPD officers].” The Report does not bother to elaborate on the substance of such “pairing and cross-training” other than to indicate that select staff and administrators will be expected to build collegial relationships with the UCRPD that, by extension, further legitimize and extend the reach of campus police power by institutionalizing what amounts to a civilian\/employee shadow police force.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u003Ca name=\"_Hlk73376839\"\u003EThe paradigm of “campus safety” operationalized by the Task Force Report fails to remotely heed the widespread, growing body of both university-based and community-accountable research, organizational innovation, and institutional leadership exemplified by students, faculty, staff, administrators, and concerned community members (including survivors of police harassment and violence) at educational institutions like\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/gems.peralta.edu\/peralta-community-college-district-to-hire-three-new-community-based-security-services-to-replace-alameda-county-sheriffs-on-campuses\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003EPeralta Community College District\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2020\/06\/24\/oakland-board-agrees-to-eliminate-its-police-force-at-school-campuses\/\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003EOakland Unified School District\u003C\/a\u003E, both of which have effectively eliminated police presence at their college and school campuses. Rather, by appropriating and distorting a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/m.box.com\/shared_item\/https%3A%2F%2Fpopulardemocracy.app.box.com%2Fv%2FFreedomtoThrive?fbclid=IwAR2V_pAIs2r_572GfT17jpaDQtsJ_9y3sgR3Kr2NL2RkOXhbxUrTDgYHpJM\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003Epedagogical framework\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;widely used by abolitionist researchers, activists, organizers, and teachers for much of the early 21\u003Csup\u003Est\u003C\/sup\u003E\u0026nbsp;century—“Re-imagining Campus Safety”—the UCR Task Force offers a series of recommendations that allege to take steps “toward\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Enarrowing\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;the role of traditional law enforcement” by “[integrating] UCR’s Police Department into a more comprehensive Campus Safety Division.” The history of modern police reforms indicates that such proposals\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Eexpand\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;the bureaucratic, ideological, cultural, and institutional capacity of policing and police violence in their various forms, from surveillance and harassment to crowd control, involuntary hospitalization, and bodily (sexual) assault. Regrettably, the Task Force Report proposes a reorganization and redistribution of police power that rests on an “[integration of] campus safety activities, including prevention and response, more deliberately with existing campus-based programs that address issues such as mental health, domestic violence, sexual harassment, and drug or alcohol abuse.”\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"color: #954f72; vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/092C28B2-A12A-49A4-A4BC-956C7AB0B23E#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\" style=\"color: #954f72;\" title=\"\"\u003E[i]\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"color: #954f72; vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003ESuch reforms of campus police power replicate the widely criticized models of “community policing” attributed to well-known late-20\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E\u0026nbsp;and early-21\u003Csup\u003Est\u003C\/sup\u003E\u0026nbsp;century police administrators like Daryl Gates, William Bratton, and numerous others who have implemented scaled-up versions of similar policing protocols in Los Angeles, New York City, and numerous other locales known for rampant, normalized gendered antiblack police violence.\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/092C28B2-A12A-49A4-A4BC-956C7AB0B23E#_edn2\" name=\"_ednref2\" style=\"color: #954f72;\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"\u003E[ii]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;To invoke David Correia and Tyler Wall’s entry on “community policing” in their indispensable keyword text\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EPolice: A Field Guide\u003C\/i\u003E, “advocates for community policing claim that it offers a suite of best practices and policies that promote collaboration and partnership with communities as a way to enlist the active support of an entire community in the fabrication of social order.”\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/092C28B2-A12A-49A4-A4BC-956C7AB0B23E#_edn3\" name=\"_ednref3\" style=\"color: #954f72;\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"\u003E[iii]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003EWidely read policing scholar Kristian Williams further crystallizes the philosophical, organizational, and strategic logic of community policing in terms that anticipate the boilerplate proposals of the UCR Task Force:\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EPhilosophically\u003C\/i\u003E, community policing is characterized by the solicitation of citizen input, the broadening of the police function, and the attempt to find solutions based on the values of the local community.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EOrganizationally\u003C\/i\u003E, community policing requires that departments be restructured such as to de-centralize command, flatten hierarchies, reduce specialization, civilianize staff positions, and encourage teamwork.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EStrategically\u003C\/i\u003E, community policing efforts reorient operations away from random patrols and responding to 911 calls, towards more directed, proactive, and preventive activities.\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/092C28B2-A12A-49A4-A4BC-956C7AB0B23E#_edn4\" name=\"_ednref4\" style=\"color: #954f72;\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"\u003E[iv]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;[emphasis added]\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003EThe UCR Task Force’s recommendations are attempting to solve a “legitimacy problem” for the UCPD in the context of unprecedented challenges to its institutional power and reach. “The legitimacy problem for police,” as Correia and Wall write, “is about the legitimacy to use violence.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Community policing is not about making police friendlier, but about making police violence more acceptable.”\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/092C28B2-A12A-49A4-A4BC-956C7AB0B23E#_edn5\" name=\"_ednref5\" style=\"color: #954f72;\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"\u003E[v]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003ENumerous members of the UC community have\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ucop.edu\/research-policy-analysis-coordination\/policies-guidance\/campus-safety\/index.html\" style=\"color: #954f72;\"\u003Erepeatedly testified\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;that “police violence” is not limited to incidents of bodily harm, and includes everyday forms of gendered antiblack, racist, ableist, transphobic, and queerphobic harassment, surveillance, profiling, detention, and intimidation that manifest in\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Ethe mere presence of a campus police force.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003EUnless there are sustained and accelerated attempts at collective critical analysis, shared study, and concrete institutional intervention, the next phase of campus police reforms at UCR and beyond will directly reflect the logics of collaboration, re-legitimation, and deputization outlined by Correia, Wall, Williams, and many others.\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/092C28B2-A12A-49A4-A4BC-956C7AB0B23E#_edn6\" name=\"_ednref6\" style=\"color: #954f72;\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"\u003E[vi]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003EI acknowledge your invitation dated May 24, 2021 to join the “Chancellor’s Campus Safety Workgroup,” chaired by Provost Liz Watkins. I acknowledge that part of the agenda for this workgroup entails “[integrating] UCPD into the new Division of Campus Health, Well-being, and Safety,” thus expanding the reach of the campus police to include mediated involvement in matters related to mental and physiological trauma, illness, and vulnerability. For these reasons among the others previously outlined above as well as\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2021\/01\/campus-safety-task-forces-as-police.html\"\u003E in a previously published article\u003C\/a\u003E, i respectfully decline this invitation.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003EPeace\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003Edylan\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr clear=\"all\" \/\u003E\u003Chr align=\"left\" size=\"1\" width=\"33%\" \/\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"edn1\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/092C28B2-A12A-49A4-A4BC-956C7AB0B23E#_ednref1\" name=\"_edn1\" style=\"color: #954f72;\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E[i]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;“UC Riverside Campus Safety Task Force Report and Recommendations,” p. 2.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"edn2\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/092C28B2-A12A-49A4-A4BC-956C7AB0B23E#_ednref2\" name=\"_edn2\" style=\"color: #954f72;\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E[ii]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;See Kristian Williams, “Ch. 9, Your Friendly Neighborhood Police State,”\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EOur Enemies In Blue: Police and Power in America\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E(2004) (Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2007), p. 197-222.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"edn3\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/092C28B2-A12A-49A4-A4BC-956C7AB0B23E#_ednref3\" name=\"_edn3\" style=\"color: #954f72;\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E[iii]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;David Correia and Tyler Wall,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EPolice: A Field Guide\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;(London: Verso Press, 2018), p. 130.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"edn4\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/092C28B2-A12A-49A4-A4BC-956C7AB0B23E#_ednref4\" name=\"_edn4\" style=\"color: #954f72;\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E[iv]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;Williams,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EOur Enemies In Blue\u003C\/i\u003E, p. 204.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"edn5\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/092C28B2-A12A-49A4-A4BC-956C7AB0B23E#_ednref5\" name=\"_edn5\" style=\"color: #954f72;\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E[v]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;Correia and Wall, p. 130.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"edn6\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/092C28B2-A12A-49A4-A4BC-956C7AB0B23E#_ednref6\" name=\"_edn6\" style=\"color: #954f72;\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E[vi]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;See Christian Parenti,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003ELockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;(London: Verso, 2001); Alex S. Vitale,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EThe End of Policing\u003C\/i\u003E. (London: Verso, 2017); Stuart Schrader,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EBadges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;(Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2019).\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr clear=\"all\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/2287224061481382265\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2021\/06\/a-public-response-to-ucr-chancellors.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/2287224061481382265"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/2287224061481382265"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2021\/06\/a-public-response-to-ucr-chancellors.html","title":"A public response to the UCR Chancellor’s invitation to join the Campus Safety Workgroup"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Chris Newfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01078395415386100872"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEj1MxjpGI1IgDxjqnPtGJztIoN83zfI7duCQHRqK-kYVaXEybjW_s8aWtaOkE-t0UXWRBuON17gwam1YQukkMgY1ExlLO6wWloUMhcA0bAEBRQOwV6pgp3zIPWFPTrHKQuUWmvvq_qloj0\/s72-w400-h266-c\/budget+does+not+reflect+our+priorities+Cambridge+MA+Day+060921.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-4150466942332875977"},"published":{"$t":"2021-05-03T10:11:00.004-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-05-03T10:11:23.114-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Grad Student Strike"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Policing"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UCOP"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UCPD"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Days of Refusal of Campus Police"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiKQ8da4V8YGirPycJkOjNWV5fRpXegkyyj06xjknPie3Z7LjpoqXX-YouqyaL-JAkcT5ChWJPnf1CK1Mvf0oCRtHB20ubabsUeetg2sxRkFZKqkgQaiVlhI4ml_IJ4zUBsM6PwCZ37TuQ\/s1440\/Policing+UCPD+Atlantic092814Rise+of+LawEnforcement+on+Campus.webp\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"810\" data-original-width=\"1440\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiKQ8da4V8YGirPycJkOjNWV5fRpXegkyyj06xjknPie3Z7LjpoqXX-YouqyaL-JAkcT5ChWJPnf1CK1Mvf0oCRtHB20ubabsUeetg2sxRkFZKqkgQaiVlhI4ml_IJ4zUBsM6PwCZ37TuQ\/w400-h225\/Policing+UCPD+Atlantic092814Rise+of+LawEnforcement+on+Campus.webp\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EVarious universities have hosted a range of events leading up May 3rd's abolitionist Day of Refusal, meaning a strike day. This is meant to kick off a month of direct actions (described on\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/copsoffcampuscoalition.com\/abolition-may\/\"\u003E the Cops off Campus website\u003C\/a\u003E) to raise awareness of the necessity and the possibility of converting most or all policing functions to constructive forms of safety practices, care, and community engagement. \u0026nbsp;\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDuring the George Floyd phase of the Black Lives Matter movement last year, ideas about police replacement arrived in the mainstream media, like \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/outlook\/2020\/06\/12\/defund-police-violent-crime\/?arc404=true\"\u003Ethese\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;good ones from a Princeton sociologist in the Washington \u003Ci\u003EPost\u003C\/i\u003E. \u0026nbsp;If campus police departments had been formed to \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/education\/archive\/2015\/09\/college-campus-policing\/407659\/\"\u003Ereduce the chances of regular cops busting student heads\u003C\/a\u003E during anti-Vietnam war protests in the 1960s and 1970s, student heads were now in greater danger from campus police during contemporary protests--or non-protests: UCPD found the limelight in 2006 when UCLA \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/archives\/la-xpm-2006-nov-18-me-taser18-story.html\"\u003Epolice tasered a student who was studyin\u003C\/a\u003Eg in Powell Library.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEisTAMBW8XZyGb4CmsO-MkAfxLK04_Ei5FuQSmegQiBoPVliFQoKOapL341vd2DE0_gHZS1XqRWnao_e7j1HJWfzO81gtv1S-XSY7iW85vyyP2sdkxtKwUXtbSvzUa0JU5QFUHnPXlYZbE\/s640\/Taser_rally_2.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"480\" data-original-width=\"640\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEisTAMBW8XZyGb4CmsO-MkAfxLK04_Ei5FuQSmegQiBoPVliFQoKOapL341vd2DE0_gHZS1XqRWnao_e7j1HJWfzO81gtv1S-XSY7iW85vyyP2sdkxtKwUXtbSvzUa0JU5QFUHnPXlYZbE\/w400-h300\/Taser_rally_2.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EWhen the UC Regents passed large tuition hikes in 2009 and 2011, students protested them. Various forms of UCPD misconduct wound up in the public eye, with \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/bayarea\/article\/UC-campus-police-move-in-on-student-protesters-2323667.php\"\u003Ebeatings and arrests at UC Berkeley\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in November 2011, including of campus faculty (see \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2011\/11\/why-i-got-arrested-with-occupy-cal-and.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EProf. Celeste Langan's post\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;about her arrest, and Prof. \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2012\/03\/ddeepening-chill-in-berkeley-recap-of.html\"\u003EGreg Levine's recap of political repression against campus protest).\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;UCPD-Davis's Sgt. Pike then went on a world-famous pepper-spray rampage. This killed off any lingering sense that campus police were special--more collaborative and communicative, less anti-student, less violent towards the unresisting than off-campus forces. \u0026nbsp;\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhkAQvSYKMpcmtSxmydfha_86R-AQbucASlNJOU_T6t7pdg6m8oYcRSj_Pbjp_KK1DZ6PFo4S5QcVIaNtRlKCzyyh16S2LqiHqHSjRn4nT-YlrSNl0Y1y_m9vEQZSEjgFeqRTMb7ncZbgc\/s1926\/Policing+Pepper+Spray+Pike+UCDavis+1111.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1282\" data-original-width=\"1926\" height=\"266\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhkAQvSYKMpcmtSxmydfha_86R-AQbucASlNJOU_T6t7pdg6m8oYcRSj_Pbjp_KK1DZ6PFo4S5QcVIaNtRlKCzyyh16S2LqiHqHSjRn4nT-YlrSNl0Y1y_m9vEQZSEjgFeqRTMb7ncZbgc\/w400-h266\/Policing+Pepper+Spray+Pike+UCDavis+1111.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EIn reaction, UCOP sponsored a report (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.universityofcalifornia.edu\/press-room\/final-uc-report-protests-and-policing-released\"\u003EEdley and Robinson, 2012\u003C\/a\u003E) on UCPD conduct, but not much happened. Police abuse also did not become a tenure-track faculty issue. For example, \u0026nbsp;Davis faculty\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2012\/02\/davis-agonistes.html\"\u003E senate sided with Chancellor Katehi\u003C\/a\u003E while condemning Sgt Pike's actions. The 2009-13 period offers a long, dynamic example of why policing activists are so deeply skeptical about \"police reform.\" \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EA defining campus cop incident occurred in July 2015, when \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/07\/30\/us\/university-of-cincinnati-officer-indicted-in-shooting-death-of-motorist.html?_r=0\"\u003Ea University of Cincinnati police officer killed Samuel Dubose\u003C\/a\u003E during a routine traffic stop off campus. After this, the media paid more attention to the \u003Ca href=\"greater opacity of campus police reporting\"\u003Egreater opacity of campus police reporting\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;their lesser training compared to municipal departments in many jurisdictions, and their not-so-different bad treatment of people from marginalized groups.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EThe protests that really brought out the police were opposed to the effects of austerity policies that the university itself was \u0026nbsp;unable or unwilling to oppose. These were often tuition hikes that disparately punished poor students and students of color. These protests worked, with the nail in coffin being protests\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2014\/11\/wild-day-at-uc-regents-stakes-of.html\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;in 2014)\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026nbsp;The state did not replace missing tuition hikes with meaningful state increases, as we've had occasion to note, so austerity effects continue to the present day. The grad student COLA strike at UC Santa Cruz in 2019-20 was another turn of the screw. They brought heavy police containment of strikers by various police forces, and appeared to be part of a strategy of physically intimidating the students to drop the strike. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgLjIivWCFhz1yrsvUiRup6liA-dqoqJO4MKYU1fPVA9fLsKqe183Vwi5k1JqO0DmMm3MYCF8z_bhB0520PkIkdnXM7SoKyd3nJww3DhHleYyOW3FPJz5O0yT8qeYEOfE4PIOPwELUV0K0\/s1484\/Policing+Santa+Cruz+Strike+0220+2.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"982\" data-original-width=\"1484\" height=\"265\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgLjIivWCFhz1yrsvUiRup6liA-dqoqJO4MKYU1fPVA9fLsKqe183Vwi5k1JqO0DmMm3MYCF8z_bhB0520PkIkdnXM7SoKyd3nJww3DhHleYyOW3FPJz5O0yT8qeYEOfE4PIOPwELUV0K0\/w400-h265\/Policing+Santa+Cruz+Strike+0220+2.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhOpK0C9LivKYCrGWDRfYR29dei9L_EFsnbngiDZYE1aAXuYpz3tQlHbt6XSVrsR3XlU7ezc3BzUmN7g2_W5pf-5mIRz5KGs9lAD_d8gFao9EHbBEr-5Zw0-I9l8o-BMIPsA1qAfetayQo\/s1274\/Policing+Santa+Cruz+Strike+0220.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1012\" data-original-width=\"1274\" height=\"318\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhOpK0C9LivKYCrGWDRfYR29dei9L_EFsnbngiDZYE1aAXuYpz3tQlHbt6XSVrsR3XlU7ezc3BzUmN7g2_W5pf-5mIRz5KGs9lAD_d8gFao9EHbBEr-5Zw0-I9l8o-BMIPsA1qAfetayQo\/w400-h318\/Policing+Santa+Cruz+Strike+0220.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EPhoto Credit: \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2020\/02\/12\/at-least-17-arrests-as-ucsc-students-stand-off-against-police\/\"\u003EMerc News\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EThe later administrative suspension of the strikers who withheld grades (see Michael's \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/03\/ucsc-fate-of-graduate-education-and.html\"\u003Eoverview\u003C\/a\u003E), made policing again seem an extension of administrative refusal to take student concerns seriously, deliberate democratically, and find adequate funding for the educational core.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EIn 2020, UCLA faculty discovered that \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/06\/ucla-lets-lapd-use-jackie-robinson.html\"\u003Ethe LAPD geeks arrested BLM protesters on a campus baseball field\u003C\/a\u003E named for the barrier-breaking Black baseball legend and UCLA alum Jackie Robinson. This suggested that the one big advantage of the UCPD--that they were not the LAPD--could be readily set aside. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EDerek Chauvin's guilty verdict--in the Minneapolis trial of George Floyd's killer--coupled with ongoing police killings in the days before and after, have increased an interest in permanent policing changes that goes all the way to the White House. It's into this context that UCOP has recently launched proposals for changes in UC police policy. They include a ludicrous plan to form a kind of UC SWAT that would be deployed around the state to tamp down alleged unrest. \u0026nbsp;Here you can find Dylan Rodriguez\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2021\/01\/campus-safety-task-forces-as-police.html\"\u003Ediscussing Cops Off Campus\u003C\/a\u003E in the context of policing task forces, and Michael recently \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2021\/04\/ucop-doubles-down-on-militarized.html\"\u003Eposting on the UC police proposals\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EAnother good place for background on the no- combined issues of overall police conversion and stopping a new militarization of UCPD is this\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/ucsbfa.org\/town-hall-report-may-3-day-of-refusal-and-ucop-police-reform-proposals\/\"\u003EUCSB Faculty Association post.\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;It has a number of links to statements and explainers about local and national dimensions, as well as its own statement, which nicely represents TT faculty who've mostly focused on faculty welfare, academic freedom, administrative misconduct, and budgeting coming to take a meaningful stand on campus police transformation, and linking it to core faculty concerns.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOf course I can't stop without making a budget point. The political economy of universities is now pressuring units toward for-profit activities. The function of policing in this model was \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/reclaimuc.blogspot.com\/2020\/06\/how-much-money-does-university-of.html\"\u003Enicely described in a big\u003Ci\u003E Reclaim UC\u003C\/i\u003E post last year.\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp; It itemizes UC police budgets and also offers an important analysis of how policing fits into a skewed administrative understanding of risk management. Here I'll close with a simpler point about quantities of expenditure. \u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EReclaim UC\u003C\/i\u003E notes that UCSB's police budget was just under $11 million in 2018-19 (the UC range of \u003Ci\u003Ebase\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;budgets\u0026nbsp;is from $5 million to $22.4 million in that year). \u0026nbsp;The 2019-20 grad COLA strike was for a pay increase that would eliminate \"rent burden\" for grad workers. My calculation at the time was that to take all rent burdened UCSB grads out of burden would cost UCSB about $5.2 million a year--or around half of the police budget. \u0026nbsp;(I'll do the math in a future post on the new rent hikes at UCSD.)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI hope Abolition May moves the debate toward some deep and comprehensive police conversion.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/4150466942332875977\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2021\/05\/days-of-refusal-of-campus-police.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/4150466942332875977"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/4150466942332875977"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2021\/05\/days-of-refusal-of-campus-police.html","title":"Days of Refusal of Campus Police"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Chris Newfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01078395415386100872"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiKQ8da4V8YGirPycJkOjNWV5fRpXegkyyj06xjknPie3Z7LjpoqXX-YouqyaL-JAkcT5ChWJPnf1CK1Mvf0oCRtHB20ubabsUeetg2sxRkFZKqkgQaiVlhI4ml_IJ4zUBsM6PwCZ37TuQ\/s72-w400-h225-c\/Policing+UCPD+Atlantic092814Rise+of+LawEnforcement+on+Campus.webp","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-4630532160352347876"},"published":{"$t":"2021-01-29T14:36:00.008-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-02-16T06:55:14.004-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Admin Responses"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Policing"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC Riverside"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UCPD"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Campus Safety Task Forces As Police Power (Updated with Signature Link)"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; 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caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #954f72; text-decoration: underline;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/caseygrants.org\/freedomscholars\/#Dylan\" style=\"color: #954f72; text-decoration: underline;\"\u003E2020 Freedom Scholar\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EProfessor, Dept. of Media and Cultural Studies\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003EUniversity of California, Riverside\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cu\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EPolice Restoration at the University of California\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003ECollective movement against antiblack policing has prolife\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003Erated among University of California (UC) faculty, employees, and students since the summer months of \u0026nbsp;2020. Influenced and led by the practices and frameworks of Black radicalism—specifically, Black diasporic, Black feminist, and Black queer and trans abolitionist organizing—a growing number of people affiliated with the UC system are challenging the university’s complicity in the normalized state violence that kills people like George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Rayshard Brooks, Atatiana Jefferson, Michael Brown, Philando Castile, Korryn Gaines, Freddie Gray, Tamir Rice, Tyisha Miller, and so many others.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003EThe formation of the abolitionist Cops Off Campus campaign led by the UC systemwide group\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ucftp?lang=en\" style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003EUCFTP\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;(of which i am an active member), emergence of the\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu\/abolition-repository\/\" style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003EDivest\/Invest\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003Ecollective at the UCLA campus, and statements of commitment to abolitionist principles by the\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/ucsa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/UCSA-Statement-Anti-Blackness-Police-Violence-6_2.pdf\" style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003EUniversity of California Student Association\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;are just three prominent examples of\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.dailycal.org\/2020\/09\/04\/coalition-launches-campaign-to-remove-police-from-uc-campuses\/\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.dailycal.org\/2020\/09\/04\/coalition-launches-campaign-to-remove-police-from-uc-campuses\/\"\u003Erecent mobilizations\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;that have drawn from campus-based groups, including contingent faculty, labor unions, student organizations, mutual aid organizations, and even some research centers.\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"\u003E[1]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EAlmost inevitably, this surge of activism has been accompanied by dozens of\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.universityofcalifornia.edu\/press-room\/uc-statement-protests-violence-following-george-floyd-s-death\" style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003Epublic statements\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;from UC departments,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/leadership.ucdavis.edu\/news\/messages\/chancellor-messages\/statement-on-george-floyd\" style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003Euniversity\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/news.ucsc.edu\/2020\/05\/statement-on-george-floyd.html\" style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003Eadministrators\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E, and police chiefs expressing varieties of concern, outrage, sympathy, and disgust over police killings of Black people.\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_edn2\" name=\"_ednref2\" title=\"\"\u003E[2]\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003EThe administrative response of the UC system to revolts against antiblack police violence and “systemic racism” mirrors the broader national drift toward a reformist restoration of law-and-order, political stability, and respectable policing.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003ERelying on the triage and public relations model of administratively appointed “campus safety task forces” (in which university police are core members), UC administrators exemplify a process of institutional consultation, auditing, and piecemeal reform that installs the reproduction of police power as a premise of deliberation.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003ECampus safety task forces are not merely\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Einadequate\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;to the task of slowing, interrupting, or ending the asymmetrical terror produced through modern campus policing—including but not limited to gendered antiblackness, Islamophobia, queer and transphobia, misogyny, ableism, white supremacy, and racial violence.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Beyond this fundamental and unsurprising inadequacy, these task forces work to\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Esustain and re-legitimize police power\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;while\u003Ci\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003Eextending the parameters of policing as a layered infrastructure of state and state-condoned violence.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;To echo UCFTP’s January 2, 2021\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ucftp\/status\/1345460418714562560\" style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003Estatement\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E, “Task forces allow universities to preserve and protect the violent institution of policing…. Declining to serve on task forces… recognizes and exposes task forces for what they are.”\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_edn3\" name=\"_ednref3\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"\u003E[3]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cu\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EAudit, Wash, and Repeat:\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EThe UCOP Task Force on Universitywide Policing (2018-2020)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003EFormer UC President Janet Napolitano—who served as Secretary of Homeland Security under President Barack Obama—exemplified the logic and function of such police reform task forces in the creation of the 2018 UC\u0026nbsp;Presidential Task Force on Universitywide Policing. While it is beyond the intent of this short contribution to thoroughly detail the content and outcomes of its full report, it is worth emphasizing that the Presidential Task Force was solely concerned with improving the UCPD’s internal efficiency and restoring its institutional legitimacy in the aftermath of multiple, prominent incidents of police violence against students during the 2010s.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;While Lt. John Pike’s pepper spraying of UC Davis students during a nonviolent demonstration in 2011 was the most notorious such spectacle,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/california-campus-police-clash-with-protesters-ows_n_1125537\"\u003Eexamples\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;of the UCPD’s proclivity for\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/crime\/article\/Students-racially-profiled-brutalized-by-13701947.php\"\u003Ephysical\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and chemical\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2006\/11\/17\/shock-and-anger-ucla\"\u003Eviolence\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;against campus and community members abound.\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_edn4\" name=\"_ednref4\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"\u003E[4]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;Yet, of the task force’s twenty-eight recommendations, none alluded to this\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.voiceofsandiego.org\/topics\/public-safety\/uc-campuses-have-disclosed-virtually-no-records-under-police-transparency-law\/\"\u003Earchive\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;of violence as cause to reconsider the campus policing paradigm.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Instead,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst\" style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;\"\u003E\u003C!--[if !supportLists]--\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\"\u003E·\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font: 7pt \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C!--[endif]--\u003E\u003Cspan dir=\"LTR\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E15 recommendations focus on data “transparency” and the rationalization of processes for filing and investigating complaints against the UC police;\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\" style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;\"\u003E\u003C!--[if !supportLists]--\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\"\u003E·\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font: 7pt \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C!--[endif]--\u003E\u003Cspan dir=\"LTR\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E7 recommendations address “use of force” protocols and police training for “\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11.5pt;\"\u003Eprocedural justice, implicit bias, mental health, de-escalation, cultural sensitivity, sexual orientation and trauma-informed interviewing” as well as “\u003C\/span\u003Eeducational and awareness presentations for students, staff and faculty;” and\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpLast\" style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;\"\u003E\u003C!--[if !supportLists]--\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\"\u003E·\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font: 7pt \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C!--[endif]--\u003E\u003Cspan dir=\"LTR\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E5 recommendations outline the need for\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan\u003Ecampus based “\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 11.5pt;\"\u003Eindependent advisory boards” alongside measures to improve the UCPD’s “community engagement.”\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_edn5\" name=\"_ednref5\" style=\"color: #954f72; text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 11.5pt;\"\u003E[5]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E(The 28\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E\u0026nbsp;recommendation is to create the implementation plan itself.) While Napolitano’s task force completed its work in 2019, it seems clear that the variously titled UC “campus safety” task forces created since June 2020 have drawn from her administrative blueprint.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium; text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003EThe mandate for a renewed, public-facing round of campus police reform seemed clear in July 2020 when the UC Regents\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.universityofcalifornia.edu\/press-room\/michael-v-drake-become-21st-president-university-california\" style=\"font-size: medium; text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003Eannounced\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;their selection of Michael V. Drake to succeed UC President Janet Napolitano.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_edn6\" name=\"_ednref6\" style=\"font-size: 12pt;\" title=\"\"\u003E[6]\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;During the late winter and early spring, under the authority of Chancellor Cynthia Larive, the UCPD had violently repressed the graduate student-led wildcat COLA (cost of living adjustment) strike at UC Santa Cruz.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;In June, the Los Angeles (city) Police Department prevailed on an\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.21428\/1d6be30e.8cc96f6f,%20https:\/saw.americananthro.org\/pub\/whose-university-when-police-pass-the-baton-to-campuses\/release\/1\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003Eagreement\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;with the\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-06-04\/ucla-chancellor-calls-lapd-use-of-jackie-robinson-stadium-to-process-arrests-a-violation\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003EUCLA administration\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;to convert\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.ucla.edu\/releases\/ucla-a-violation-of-our-values\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003EJackie Robinson Stadium\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;into a temporary outdoor jail for people arrested during mass demonstrations throughout Los Angeles after the police killing of George Floyd.\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_edn7\" name=\"_ednref7\" style=\"font-size: medium;\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"\u003E[7]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003EAt the time of Drake’s appointment, widespread condemnation of UC administrators’ history of sanctioning law enforcement violence seemed to mesh with the incoming UC President’s poignant\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-07-08\/uc-president-elect-michael-v-drake-knows-firsthand-about-harsh-police-tactics\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003Eaccount\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;of his own encounters with police harassment: “\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003EIt’s been a part of American life for all too long, and it’s something that needs to stop and we need to find better ways of being able to keep our communities safe.”\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_edn8\" name=\"_ednref8\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003E[8]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(\u003C\/span\u003EWidely acclaimed for his impressive academic and administrative credentials, Drake is also the first Black President of the University of California.)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: black;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cu\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: black;\"\u003ETo “Reflect Our Values”:\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EThe\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/u\u003E\u003Cu\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EUCR Campus Safety Task Force (2020-present)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003EDuring the latter part of 2020, Chancellors at individual UC campuses convened various task forces and advisory boards as part of an urgent administrative attempt to navigate the crisis of police legitimacy. Upon forming the UC Riverside Campus Safety Task Force in September, UCR Chancellor Kim Wilcox\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/insideucr.ucr.edu\/announcements\/2020\/09\/14\/campus-safety-task-force-announcement\" style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003Edescribed\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;its purpose as a “review of our overall campus safety efforts, focusing primarily on operation of the UCR Police Department and its relationship to other entities on campus and throughout the community.”\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;While Wilcox offered the Task Force wide latitude “to prioritize topics that they believe to be more important,” he took special pains to address what he considered to be the limits of its charge:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EI am not asking the Task Force to opine on the issue of whether we should maintain a police force.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EWe are better served as a community by having our own police force\u003C\/i\u003E, which\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Ereflects our values and reports to the campus\u003C\/i\u003E. Without our own police, we would fall under the jurisdiction of the Riverside Police Department and the Riverside County Sheriff.\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_edn9\" name=\"_ednref9\" style=\"color: #954f72; text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003E[9]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;[emphasis added]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ETwo parts of Wilcox’s qualifying statement clarify the assumptive premises of the UCR Task Force’s convening.\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EFirst, while it is a common rhetorical convention for elected officials, police chiefs, and other institutional executives and administrators to invoke a universalized notion of “our values” in the course of narrating their policies and decisions, such pronouncements avert sober consideration of the ethical premises of the university:\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EWhat if “our values,” read as the institutionally enforced priorities of the university, effectively (though tacitly)\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Eencompass\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;systemic, discursive, normalized antiblackness and antiblack policing at the very same time that they fetishize notions of Black student “success” and graduation rates?\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"color: #954f72; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_edn10\" name=\"_ednref10\" style=\"color: #954f72; text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"\"\u003E[10]\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EPosed another way: How does the policing of Black people, Black presence, and Black (intellectual, cultural, and social) life form the historical conditions of possibility for “our values,” which in turn cohere institutional notions of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” especially when they are applied to the work of university policing task forces?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003ESecond, Wilcox’s preemptive dismissal of abolitionist forms of campus safety as a concession to the jurisdiction of the city police and county sheriff is a red herring. \u0026nbsp;This is because of the longstanding practice of “\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/policy.ucop.edu\/doc\/4000382\/PoliceProceduresManual\"\u003Econcurrent jurisdiction\u003C\/a\u003E.”\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_edn11\" name=\"_ednref11\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"\u003E[11]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Put simply, city and county police\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Ealready\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;have shared authority with the UCRPD on campus and campus-owned property, and such is a common arrangement for campuses that employ their own police forces.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003EUnder concurrent jurisdiction, a campus administration creates a mutually recognized agreement (memorandum of understanding) with city police and county sheriff’s departments that allows the university\/college police to operate with relative autonomy on campus grounds (or, in the UCPD’s case “within one mile of the [campus’s] exterior boundaries”).\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_edn12\" name=\"_ednref12\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"\u003E[12]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Importantly, there is no inherent prohibition on the possibility of a university negotiating concurrent jurisdiction with external police departments\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Ein the absence of a campus police force,\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;provided alternative forms of security and safety are instituted in place of the UCPD. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003EThe spectacle of the UCR Task Force’s one hour virtual “\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/chancellor.ucr.edu\/task-force-campus-safety\" style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003Etown hall\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E,” held on November 12, 2020, evidenced the administrative leadership’s lack of preparation, research, and seriousness in grasping their topic. \u0026nbsp;This was despite the fact that, according to Associate Chancellor Christine Victorino, it was\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003Eprovided with a “shared drive with scholarly work in the area of police abolitionism [sic] and racial profiling.”\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;(Full transparency: this shared drive apparently includes at least one of my published scholarly articles on policing and police violence in the UC system.)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003EThe hourlong town hall provided ample reason to conclude that the Task Force’s primary purpose—in resonance with the Chancellor’s protective pro-UCPD dictate—is to support and defend the existence of the campus police, while making non-binding, consultative suggestions to modestly revise some of its internal and public-facing practices.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003EWhile the Chair of the Task Force (a local attorney and UCR alumnus) assured the hundred or so audience members that the group was “open” to considering abolitionist alternatives to the UCRPD, the prominent (and rather defensive) presence of UCR Police Chief John Freese constituted an embodied rebuttal of the Chair’s generous claim.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003EIn response to Freese’s description of the “diversity” of the UCRPD (“We have twenty-two male officers, three female, one Asian [sic] officer, two Black officers, seven Hispanic [sic] officers, and fifteen white officers”), i posed a written question to the panel:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003EIs the Task Force aware that increased diversity of police personnel does not lead to less racist, less sexist, less transphobic, less antiblack police practices?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003EThe Police Chief’s rambling response to this rudimentary question further undermined confidence in the Task Force’s credibility and analytical rigor, given Freese’s central role in its deliberations:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EWe—like all police departments—we hire from the human race.\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EIt doesn’t matter what color our police officers are.\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EOur police officers, just like any human beings, can have, um, feelings and things that are part of their lives and that they act on, sometimes subconsciously. As the leader of this department, I’ve always had a clear stance that we do not stand for any kind of prejudiced behavior from our officers….\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E[T]he best way I can answer that question, is that we do the best with hiring from the human race. I acknowledge that it doesn’t matter what color or the makeup of our police department or any police department, you’re, you’re uh, you’re dealing with human beings.\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_edn13\" name=\"_ednref13\" style=\"color: #954f72; text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003E[13]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EEspecially revealing is a passage from the\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/chancellor.ucr.edu\/task-force-campus-safety\" style=\"color: #954f72; text-decoration: underline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Eminutes\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;of the Task Force meeting held immediately after the Town Hall:\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E[UCR Police Chief] John Freese raised his concern about a recommendation for abolishing the police force; [Associate Chancellor] Christine Victorino suggested focusing on developing justified, well-founded, and implementable recommendations.\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_edn14\" name=\"_ednref14\" style=\"color: #954f72; text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\" style=\"vertical-align: super;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003E[14]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EWhile the Town Hall was nothing short of an administrative shitshow, the Task Force continued its work unabated, spurred by a January 2021 deadline to submit “recommendations” to the Chancellor.\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003ESerious questions about the Task Force’s credibility have persisted, due in part to administrative incompetence in the appointment of its members:\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Eat least two Black student appointees were not initially asked to consent to be publicly named as Task Force members, and one was no longer enrolled at the university at the time of their appointment (their name was still listed as a Task Force member in early January 2021).\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EYet, questions of credibility and competence ultimately have little to do with the Task Force’s most important purpose:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Eto simply exist\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;for a finite period.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cu\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ETask Force As Police Power\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003EThe public ritual of the “campus safety task force” reproduces the legitimacy of police presence by inviting criticism of its excess, dysfunction, mismanagement, corruption, antiblackness, racism, misogyny, queer phobia, transphobia, ableism, and white supremacy (etc.).\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003ESuch task forces are\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ci style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003Ea production and performance of police power\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003Eand are thus constitutive of, rather than external to it; their deliberations (including task force reports, white papers, and recommendations) extend the technology of policing to incorporate the ceremonial participation of critics, individualized and communal targets of police terror, and survivors of acute (and homicidal) police violence.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003EThese processes tend to not only incorporate the direct participation of police, but also extend the reach of domestic counterinsurgency as a defense of the fundamental legitimacy of police power (violence) and police militarization (domestic war).\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003EThis counterinsurgency serves to protract and reproduce antiblack (etc.) state violence at the very same time that it solicits indignant outrage against it.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003EYet, the omnipresence of police reform task forces at university and college campuses also occasions an overdue reflection on the\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ci style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003Econtinuities\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003Eof policing and police power beyond “the police.”\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003EThe university administration\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ci style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003Eis\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003Epolice power, and university police are the direct expression of administrative power.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, 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l0:level7\n\t{mso-level-number-format:bullet;\n\tmso-level-text:;\n\tmso-level-tab-stop:none;\n\tmso-level-number-position:left;\n\ttext-indent:-.25in;\n\tfont-family:Symbol;}\n@list l0:level8\n\t{mso-level-number-format:bullet;\n\tmso-level-text:o;\n\tmso-level-tab-stop:none;\n\tmso-level-number-position:left;\n\ttext-indent:-.25in;\n\tfont-family:\"Courier New\";}\n@list l0:level9\n\t{mso-level-number-format:bullet;\n\tmso-level-text:;\n\tmso-level-tab-stop:none;\n\tmso-level-number-position:left;\n\ttext-indent:-.25in;\n\tfont-family:Wingdings;}\n\n--\u003E\n\u003C\/style\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003ENOTES \u0026nbsp; \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.pe.com\/2012\/01\/20\/riverside-white-defends-university-police\/\"\u003EPhoto Credit\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr clear=\"all\" \/\u003E\u003Chr align=\"left\" size=\"1\" width=\"33%\" \/\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"edn1\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_ednref1\" name=\"_edn1\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E[1]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;See UCFTP social media sites at\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UCFTP\/\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UCFTP\/\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ucftp\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/twitter.com\/ucftp\u003C\/a\u003E, and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/uc_ftp\/\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.instagram.com\/uc_ftp\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed January 2021); UCLA Divest\/Invest website,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu\/abolition-repository\/\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu\/abolition-repository\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed January 2021); UCSA June 2, 2020 press release,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/ucsa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/UCSA-Statement-Anti-Blackness-Police-Violence-6_2.pdf\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/ucsa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/UCSA-Statement-Anti-Blackness-Police-Violence-6_2.pdf\u003C\/a\u003E; and Thao Nguyen, “Coalition launches campaign to remove police from UC campuses,”\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EThe Daily Californian\u003C\/i\u003E, September 4, 2020,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.dailycal.org\/2020\/09\/04\/coalition-launches-campaign-to-remove-police-from-uc-campuses\/\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.dailycal.org\/2020\/09\/04\/coalition-launches-campaign-to-remove-police-from-uc-campuses\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed January 2021).\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"edn2\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_ednref2\" name=\"_edn2\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E[2]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;By way of example, see University of California Office of the President, “UC statement on protests, violence following George Floyd’s death,” Sunday, May 31, 2020,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.universityofcalifornia.edu\/press-room\/uc-statement-protests-violence-following-george-floyd-s-death\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.universityofcalifornia.edu\/press-room\/uc-statement-protests-violence-following-george-floyd-s-death\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed January 2021); UC Santa Cruz Chancellor Cynthia Larive, “Statement on George Floyd to UC Santa Cruz Community,” May 29, 2020,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/news.ucsc.edu\/2020\/05\/statement-on-george-floyd.html\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/news.ucsc.edu\/2020\/05\/statement-on-george-floyd.html\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed December 2020); UC Davis Chancellor Gary May, “Chancellor’s Statement on George Floyd,”\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/leadership.ucdavis.edu\/news\/messages\/chancellor-messages\/statement-on-george-floyd\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/leadership.ucdavis.edu\/news\/messages\/chancellor-messages\/statement-on-george-floyd\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed December 2020).\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"edn3\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_ednref3\" name=\"_edn3\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E[3]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;UCFTP, “Against Task Forces,” public statement issued January 2, 2021,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ucftp\/status\/1345460418714562560\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/twitter.com\/ucftp\/status\/1345460418714562560\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed January 2021).\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"edn4\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_ednref4\" name=\"_edn4\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E[4]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;See Dylan Rodríguez, “Beyond ‘Police Brutality’: Racist State Violence and the University of California,”\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EAmerican Quarterly\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;(Currents), Vol. 64, No. 2, June 2012, p. 301-313; Gabe Schneider, “UC Campuses Have Disclosed Virtually No Records Under Police Transparency Law,”\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EVoice of San Diego\u003C\/i\u003E, May 12, 2020,\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.voiceofsandiego.org\/topics\/public-safety\/uc-campuses-have-disclosed-virtually-no-records-under-police-transparency-law\/\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.voiceofsandiego.org\/topics\/public-safety\/uc-campuses-have-disclosed-virtually-no-records-under-police-transparency-law\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed January 2021); Tyler Kingkade, “University Of California Campus Police Have History Of Excessive Force Against Protesters,”\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EThe Huffington Post\u003C\/i\u003E, December 9, 2011,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/california-campus-police-clash-with-protesters-ows_n_1125537\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/california-campus-police-clash-with-protesters-ows_n_1125537\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed January 2021); Paul D. Thacker , ‘Shock and Anger at UCLA,”\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EInside Higher Ed\u003C\/i\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003ENovember 17, 2006,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2006\/11\/17\/shock-and-anger-ucla\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2006\/11\/17\/shock-and-anger-ucla\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed January 2021); Lauren Hernández and Sarah Ravani, “Students protest UC Berkeley police arrests they say were racially motivated,”\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003ESan Francisco Chronicle\u003C\/i\u003E, March 20, 2019,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/crime\/article\/Students-racially-profiled-brutalized-by-13701947.php\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/crime\/article\/Students-racially-profiled-brutalized-by-13701947.php\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed January 2021).\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"edn5\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_ednref5\" name=\"_edn5\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E[5]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;University of California Presidential Task Force on Universitywide Policing Implementation Report, June 2020.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"edn6\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_ednref6\" name=\"_edn6\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E[6]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003EMichael V. Drake to become 21st president of the University of California\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003EUC Office of the President\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003ETuesday, July 7, 2020\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.universityofcalifornia.edu\/press-room\/michael-v-drake-become-21st-president-university-california\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.universityofcalifornia.edu\/press-room\/michael-v-drake-become-21st-president-university-california\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed January 2021).\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"edn7\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_ednref7\" name=\"_edn7\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E[7]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;See Summers, L., \u0026amp; Gougelet, K. (2020). Whose University? When Police Pass the Baton to Campuses,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003ESociety for the Anthropology of Work\u003C\/i\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.21428\/1d6be30e.8cc96f6f\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.21428\/1d6be30e.8cc96f6f\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/saw.americananthro.org\/pub\/whose-university-when-police-pass-the-baton-to-campuses\/release\/1\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/saw.americananthro.org\/pub\/whose-university-when-police-pass-the-baton-to-campuses\/release\/1\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoHyperlink\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E(accessed January 2021); Nina Agrawal, “‘Violation of our values,’ UCLA chancellor says of LAPD’s use of Jackie Robinson Stadium,”\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003ELos Angeles Times\u003C\/i\u003E, June 4, 2020,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-06-04\/ucla-chancellor-calls-lapd-use-of-jackie-robinson-stadium-to-process-arrests-a-violation\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-06-04\/ucla-chancellor-calls-lapd-use-of-jackie-robinson-stadium-to-process-arrests-a-violation\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed December 2020); “Statement on LAPD using Jackie Robinson Stadium,” June 4, 2020,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.ucla.edu\/releases\/ucla-a-violation-of-our-values\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/newsroom.ucla.edu\/releases\/ucla-a-violation-of-our-values\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed December 2020);\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"edn8\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_ednref8\" name=\"_edn8\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E[8]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;Teresa Watanabe, “UC President-elect Michael V. Drake knows firsthand about harsh police tactics,”\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003ELA Times\u003C\/i\u003E, JULY 8, 2020,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-07-08\/uc-president-elect-michael-v-drake-knows-firsthand-about-harsh-police-tactics\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-07-08\/uc-president-elect-michael-v-drake-knows-firsthand-about-harsh-police-tactics\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed January 2021).\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"edn9\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_ednref9\" name=\"_edn9\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E[9]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;Chancellor Kim Wilcox, Campus safety task force announcement, September 14, 2020\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/insideucr.ucr.edu\/announcements\/2020\/09\/14\/campus-safety-task-force-announcement\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/insideucr.ucr.edu\/announcements\/2020\/09\/14\/campus-safety-task-force-announcement\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed January 2021).\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"edn10\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_ednref10\" name=\"_edn10\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E[10]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003ETeresa Watanabe\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003EAfrican American students thrive with high graduation rates at UC Riverside\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003ELos Angeles Times\u003C\/i\u003E, June 14, 2017\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-uc-riverside-black-students-20170623-htmlstory.html\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-uc-riverside-black-students-20170623-htmlstory.html\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed January 2021).\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"edn11\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_ednref11\" name=\"_edn11\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E[11]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;University of California Universitywide Police Policies and Administrative Procedures, January 7, 2011, p. 8.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/policy.ucop.edu\/doc\/4000382\/PoliceProceduresManual\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/policy.ucop.edu\/doc\/4000382\/PoliceProceduresManual\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed January 2021). Cited in UC Senate Systemwide Public Safety Task Force Final Report Submitted to the University Committee on Faculty Welfare (UCFW)\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003EJune 1, 2018, p. 71.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/senate.universityofcalifornia.edu\/_files\/reports\/SNW-JN-gold-book-task-force-report.pdf\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/senate.universityofcalifornia.edu\/_files\/reports\/SNW-JN-gold-book-task-force-report.pdf\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed January 2021)\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"edn12\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_ednref12\" name=\"_edn12\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E[12]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;Ibid.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"edn13\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"applewebdata:\/\/CC4F4FDF-1EEB-4413-8696-9E808ECDE168#_ednref13\" name=\"_edn13\" title=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E[13]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;Task Force on Campus Safety Town Hall, November 12, 2020\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/chancellor.ucr.edu\/task-force-campus-safety\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/chancellor.ucr.edu\/task-force-campus-safety\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(accessed December 2020).\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"edn14\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoEndnoteText\"\u003E\u003Ca 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nationalism"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Meaning of January 6 (message from the American Studies Association President) "},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"\u0026quot;Arial\u0026quot;,sans-serif\" style=\"color: #262626; font-size: 13pt;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003ELetter from UC Riverside professor Dylan Rodriguez to the ASA community:\u003C\/i\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"\u0026quot;Arial\u0026quot;,sans-serif\" style=\"color: #262626; font-size: 13pt;\"\u003EDear\nColleagues, Friends, and Loved Ones,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"\u0026quot;Arial\u0026quot;,sans-serif\" style=\"color: #262626; font-size: 13pt;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"\u0026quot;Arial\u0026quot;,sans-serif\" style=\"color: #262626; font-size: 13pt;\"\u003EThere has\nbeen an expected wave of statements from higher education administrators,\nacademic departments, research centers, and prominent individuals affiliated\nwith our fields of work regarding the armed deadly takeover of the United\nStates Capitol by self-declared “patriots” on January 6, 2021.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EI must be honest that i dread adding to this\nnoise, which is why i have waited a few days to send this note.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EI do not write on behalf of the ASA or its\nleadership body, but rather out of a humble sense of accountability to the\ncommunities of radical and abolitionist movement that nourish me.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"\u0026quot;Arial\u0026quot;,sans-serif\" style=\"color: #262626; font-size: 13pt;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"\u0026quot;Arial\u0026quot;,sans-serif\" style=\"color: #262626; font-size: 13pt;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"\u0026quot;Arial\u0026quot;,sans-serif\" style=\"color: #262626; font-size: 13pt;\"\u003ELast\nweek’s spectacular white nationalist coup attempt may have been exceptional in\nform, but (for many of us) was entirely familiar—utterly “American”—in\ncontent.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EIt is misleading, historically\ninaccurate, and politically dangerous to frame this event—and the condition\nthat produced it—as an isolated or extremist exception to the foundational and\nsustained violence that constitutes the United States.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EAs the surging neo-Confederates in the\nCapitol building made clear, there is a long tradition of (fully armed)\npopulist, extra-state, and (ostensibly) extra-legal reactionary movement that\nholds a lasting claim of entitlement on the nation and its edifices of official\npower.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"\u0026quot;Arial\u0026quot;,sans-serif\" style=\"color: #262626; font-size: 13pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"\u0026quot;Arial\u0026quot;,sans-serif\" style=\"color: #262626; font-size: 13pt;\"\u003EFurther,\nthe steady trickle of information from January 6 indicates that police\npower—including the prominent presence of (former) police and “Blue Lives\nMatter” in the coup itself—animated and populated this white nationalist\nsiege.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EContrary to prevailing accounts,\nthis event was not defined by a failure of police power, but rather was a\nmilitant expression of it.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"\u0026quot;Arial\u0026quot;,sans-serif\" style=\"color: #262626; font-size: 13pt;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"\u0026quot;Arial\u0026quot;,sans-serif\" style=\"color: #262626; font-size: 13pt;\"\u003EPeople in\nthe extended ASA community have organized their lifework around practices of\nfreedom, knowledge, and teaching that unapologetically confront this physical\nand figurative mob in, before, and beyond 2021.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\n\u003C\/span\u003EI write as your colleague, comrade, and “ASA President” to urge you to\ninvigorate and expand your scholarly, activist, and creative labors in this\ntime of turmoil.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EThe ASA is but one\nmodest apparatus at your disposal.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"\u0026quot;Arial\u0026quot;,sans-serif\" style=\"color: #262626; font-size: 13pt;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"\u0026quot;Arial\u0026quot;,sans-serif\" style=\"color: #262626; font-size: 13pt;\"\u003EFinally,\ni encourage a collective embrace of an ethic and practice that is common to\nsome, though underdiscussed by far too many:\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\n\u003C\/span\u003Ecollective, communal self-defense.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\n\u003C\/span\u003EThis robust ethic and practice is not only central to abolitionist,\nliberationist, Black (feminist, queer, trans) radical, and Indigenous\nself-determination traditions of mutual aid and community building, but is also\na necessary aspect of “campus life” for many of us in the ASA.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EThe need to develop well-deliberated,\nmutually accountable forms of self-defense cannot be abstracted, caricatured,\nor trivialized in this moment of asymmetrical vulnerability to illness and\nterror.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EGet your back, and get each\nother’s backs, in whatever way you can.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"\u0026quot;Arial\u0026quot;,sans-serif\" style=\"color: #262626; font-size: 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Newfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01078395415386100872"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-5431173609301175023"},"published":{"$t":"2020-06-12T10:15:00.006-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-06-12T10:15:56.959-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"abolition"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Policing"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UCLA"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Faculty Demand that UCLA Divest Immediately from Police After LAPD Uses Jackie Robinson Stadium as Field Jail"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjdGVanLFY6N8FaHVQB__6v6CCP25t8wKtDDCagcLQU97UH0pVmYxazJkSefuNFOUQPzGWMRz4cbD_v_UZ1BSQ6KNlBClpRB5B2bCmtQJFw457EGykioAbvWhyG-VDHdvvWAGNF1fkKO3M\/s1600\/UCLA+LAPD+Protest+0620.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1088\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"217\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjdGVanLFY6N8FaHVQB__6v6CCP25t8wKtDDCagcLQU97UH0pVmYxazJkSefuNFOUQPzGWMRz4cbD_v_UZ1BSQ6KNlBClpRB5B2bCmtQJFw457EGykioAbvWhyG-VDHdvvWAGNF1fkKO3M\/s320\/UCLA+LAPD+Protest+0620.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\nA newly formed group, the DIVEST\/ INVEST UCLA Faculty Collective, submitted a letter to the Chancellor of UCLA today demanding immediate divestment from all police and law enforcement agencies. This letter was signed by the 33 members of the collective and is co-signed by 214 other faculty.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe Divestment Now Demands letter urges Chancellor Gene Block to commit immediately to “end [UCLA’s] relationship with the Los Angeles Police Department and other county, state, and federal police departments and security agencies, including but not limited to the LA Sheriff’s Department, the California Highway Patrol, the Santa Monica Police Department, Department of Homeland Security, and ICE.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIt also demands that UCLA defund UCPD and “replace it with anti-carceral forms of accountability, including restorative and transformative justice and community-led public safety.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThis letter stands in support of demands for action put forward by Black students and Black faculty at UCLA. Professor Kelly Lytle Hernández, Director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA and a member of the DIVEST\/ INVEST UCLA Faculty Collective stated: “The uprising for Black life is knocking on UCLA’s door and it has yet to answer.” She urged UCLA leadership to “meet the historic opportunity for systemic change by divesting from white supremacy and investing in Black life.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe DIVEST\/INVEST UCLA Faculty Collective is made up of faculty who played a key role in exposing LAPD’s recent use of UCLA’s Jackie Robinson Stadium as a field jail for detaining protesters and processing arrests. When faculty wrote to UCLA leadership in protest, UCLA leadership initially claimed to have had no knowledge of LAPD’s use of the stadium, only to acknowledge later that they did know that it was to be used as a “staging area,” though not as a field jail. In the Divestment Now Demands letter, UCLA faculty insist that UCLA take accountability for having aided the field jail and point out that “as long as UCLA collaborates with LAPD and other police forces, it is complicit in, and bears responsibility for, police brutality and racialized state violence.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nJoining a UC-wide and national movement, the UCLA faculty call for the university to step up to the moment and commit to abolition as part of its commitments as a public university. This includes reinvesting the university’s resources toward research and teaching, especially in the areas of racial justice, supporting Black students, faculty, staff, and workers at UCLA, as well as the Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities impacted by police violence.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nMEDIA CONTACTS:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSarah Haley, (203) 675-3653, sahaley@gmail.com\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAnanya Roy, (510) 316-7731, ananyaucla@gmail.com\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nPhoto Credit: \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/ucla-students-protest-police-violence-and-lapd-field-jail-on-campus\/\"\u003ECourthouse News\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0026nbsp; "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/5431173609301175023\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/06\/faculty-demand-that-ucla-divest.html#comment-form","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/5431173609301175023"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/5431173609301175023"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/06\/faculty-demand-that-ucla-divest.html","title":"Faculty Demand that UCLA Divest Immediately from Police After LAPD Uses Jackie Robinson Stadium as Field Jail"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Chris Newfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01078395415386100872"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjdGVanLFY6N8FaHVQB__6v6CCP25t8wKtDDCagcLQU97UH0pVmYxazJkSefuNFOUQPzGWMRz4cbD_v_UZ1BSQ6KNlBClpRB5B2bCmtQJFw457EGykioAbvWhyG-VDHdvvWAGNF1fkKO3M\/s72-c\/UCLA+LAPD+Protest+0620.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"3"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-3755412410105786150"},"published":{"$t":"2020-06-04T22:39:00.002-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-06-08T13:14:50.298-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Policing"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Protests"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UCLA"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"UCLA Faculty Critique of Admin Statement on Violation of Values"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiUXT_31KvWcvYwkS3-UouqKHNzXoI6wTpvSF-qJ9QGNbf9SPL7jFiNeH5TFDgQwyQn8LjGcKD2z6WU0yFpRplepdKH4Z2cqHw9A4K_Obd_apURAFubs8tUJWDgpzhS3pYgGfzWK8U7jo0\/s1600\/Black+Lives+MatterWhiteSilenceIsViolencee0620.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiUXT_31KvWcvYwkS3-UouqKHNzXoI6wTpvSF-qJ9QGNbf9SPL7jFiNeH5TFDgQwyQn8LjGcKD2z6WU0yFpRplepdKH4Z2cqHw9A4K_Obd_apURAFubs8tUJWDgpzhS3pYgGfzWK8U7jo0\/s1600\/Black+Lives+MatterWhiteSilenceIsViolencee0620.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"598\" data-original-width=\"872\" height=\"136\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiUXT_31KvWcvYwkS3-UouqKHNzXoI6wTpvSF-qJ9QGNbf9SPL7jFiNeH5TFDgQwyQn8LjGcKD2z6WU0yFpRplepdKH4Z2cqHw9A4K_Obd_apURAFubs8tUJWDgpzhS3pYgGfzWK8U7jo0\/s200\/Black+Lives+MatterWhiteSilenceIsViolencee0620.png\" width=\"200\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nTO: Chancellor Gene D. Block, UCLA\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0026nbsp;Executive Vice-Chancellor \u0026amp; Provost Emily Carter\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nVice Chancellor Michael Beck\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nVice Chancellor Jerry Kang\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWe write in response to your “Violation of Values” Bruinpost of June 3, 2020, regarding LAPD’s use of the Jackie Robinson Stadium as a field jail. We are glad to see that our efforts at shining a light on this incident have led UCLA leadership to reflect on the university’s active collaboration with LAPD including through the use of UCLA facilities by LAPD. We look forward to concrete next steps to ensure the “commitment to equity, diversity, respect and justice” that you foreground in your letter.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBut as we noted in our letter of June 3, 2020, it is difficult for us to have confidence in these next steps without knowledge of the full truth. Last evening, the Los Angeles \u003Ci\u003ETimes\u003C\/i\u003E published the following:\u003Cb\u003E “The LAPD said in a statement late Wednesday that it created a command post in the stadium parking lot on Sunday in preparation for planned demonstration in Westwood the following day. It said the facility had been used ‘for previous city emergencies and was obtained with the approval of the staff’ of UCLA.”\u003C\/b\u003E We immediately wrote to VC Beck expressing concern that this very disturbing fact had been omitted from his multiple communications with us, despite our request for a full and public accounting of the decisions, permissions, and agreements that enabled the use of the Jackie Robinson Stadium as a field jail.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWe include VC Beck’s reply to Professor Roy in its entirety so as to not misrepresent it: \u003Ci\u003E“Thank you for sharing your increased frustration in this situation. As I indicated in my earlier email to you today, the letter to you and the other faculty members last night was intended to deal directly with the issue that you raised and social media was questioning with regard to the use of the stadium parking lot as a “field jail.” It was never my intend to mislead you or others by excluding the information with regard to the site being used for a staging area. We have a BruinPost that should be going out any minute, which clearly states that we were aware that the site was being used as a staging site for the LAPD command post as it has been used many times in the past. We acknowledge that such use in this situation was inappropriate and apologize for not being more sensitive to this reality. It is important to clarify a point in the article below, which is that LAPD did not request the use of the property from UCLA. They requested authorization from the VA directly. In the end that is less important since we became aware of the staging site on Monday. In addition, as is customary in the efforts to coordinate with mutual aid police agencies, we had a Lieutenant at the command post during the protest. The lieutenant left prior to LAPD deciding to, without our knowledge or permission, convert the site to a field processing center later in the evening and he was unaware of that use when he left. The LAPD has acknowledge \u003C\/i\u003E[stet] \u003Ci\u003Ethat they did not tell UCLA that they were going to use the property for processing of arrestees. I am happy to answer other questions so that the record is clear.\"\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIf earlier we were both incredulous and alarmed that you had no knowledge of the field jail, given its scale, scope, and duration, now we are even more incredulous and alarmed. We are incredulous because none of us as faculty would accept from our students the line of argumentation that VC Beck presented to us last evening. If you were aware that the site was being used as a staging site for the LAPD command post, then the omission of this fact from previous communications with us (which included other details of how the site has been used, for example by LAFD) is a violation of the full truth. And we are alarmed that UCLA leadership is unwilling to acknowledge the direct connection between this command post and the subsequent field jail. Are we as scholars under the impression that the police hand out lemonade to protesters at these “staging areas”? Especially troubling is the detail in VC Beck’s email about the role of what we presume is a UCPD Lieutenant, raising question about active UCPD-UCLA collaboration in the policing of protests.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAs we noted in our initial letter, such active collaboration with the police state stands in sharp hypocrisy to the statements of solidarity with protest that the UCLA leadership has issued recently. It undermines our confidence in the sentiment expressed in yesterday’s “Violation of Values” post. The withholding of information, in the face of the anguish and trauma of those detained at the Stadium and despite our quest for the full truth, confirms our concerns about the relationship between UCLA and LAPD and extends to UCPD as well. It reminds us why Black, Brown, and Indigenous students, faculty, students, and workers do not feel safe on this campus, and brings us more forcefully to our call to end UCLA’s relationship with LAPD and other police forces.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWe once again ask for a public accounting of all communications, permissions, and agreements pertaining to the use of the Jackie Robinson Stadium AND other UCLA facilities as staging areas and command posts by LAPD. We hope that we do not have to spend more time explaining what we mean by the full truth. This should be evident to all parties concerned.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWe once again emphasize that if the field jail was LAPD use of property without authorization from the lessee, in this case UCLA, then we expect the university to seek compensation for such use and invest these resources in a manner that provides a modicum of remedy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn addition, as noted in our letter of June 3, 2020, starting next week, we the UCLA faculty, will form a Divestment Working Group, which will work closely with student and community organizations, with an initial demand that UCLA divest fully from any relationships with LAPD.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSuch a Divestment Working Group will build on the long-standing work of departments, centers, and initiatives at UCLA that are already engaged in studying and dismantling structural racism. We will share with you our concrete, actionable recommendations toward implementing the goal of divestment, as well as that of investing in alternatives to policing.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSincerely,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe Executive Committee of Concerned UCLA Faculty\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAnanya Roy\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nLaura Abrams\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nLeisy Abrego\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nHannah Appel\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSarah Haley\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nKelly Lytle Hernández\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGrace Kyungwon Hong\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGaye Theresa Johnson\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nMichael Lens\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nShannon Speed\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nNoah Zatz\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nMaite Zubiaurre\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3755412410105786150\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/06\/ucla-faculty-critique-of-admin.html#comment-form","title":"4 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/3755412410105786150"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/3755412410105786150"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/06\/ucla-faculty-critique-of-admin.html","title":"UCLA Faculty Critique of Admin Statement on Violation of Values"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Chris Newfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01078395415386100872"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiUXT_31KvWcvYwkS3-UouqKHNzXoI6wTpvSF-qJ9QGNbf9SPL7jFiNeH5TFDgQwyQn8LjGcKD2z6WU0yFpRplepdKH4Z2cqHw9A4K_Obd_apURAFubs8tUJWDgpzhS3pYgGfzWK8U7jo0\/s72-c\/Black+Lives+MatterWhiteSilenceIsViolencee0620.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"4"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-4287111522025979023"},"published":{"$t":"2020-06-03T13:53:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-06-03T13:54:28.239-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Faculty"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Policing"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Protests"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UCLA"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"UCLA Faculty Response to Admin Claim of Unauthorized LAPD Use of Jackie Robinson Stadium"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgCGnQhAwKsjQ2tcZftTDB26ZpsV50akmjmUzeV4ah0NcQstLET8jJHfLDX_JQxbFada7QG36dXwHic81oitKz8InX1NP3R1hzLL_pPMyPuuvcFxxXGw5jyWsUVBdWFezafAw9RbCVR61A\/s1600\/UCLA+detained+protesters.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1067\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"213\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgCGnQhAwKsjQ2tcZftTDB26ZpsV50akmjmUzeV4ah0NcQstLET8jJHfLDX_JQxbFada7QG36dXwHic81oitKz8InX1NP3R1hzLL_pPMyPuuvcFxxXGw5jyWsUVBdWFezafAw9RbCVR61A\/s320\/UCLA+detained+protesters.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\nDear Vice Chancellor Beck,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; We write in response to your communication of June 2, 2020, regarding the use of the Jackie Robinson Stadium to detain protesters and process arrests on the evening of June 1, 2020.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; You state in your letter that “the use of the Jackie Robinson Stadium parking lot as a ‘field jail’ was not done with the administration’s permission, collaboration or knowledge.” You also state that from time to time, city agencies like the Los Angeles Fire Department ask UCLA’s permission to use the parking lot as a staging area during fires or other emergencies” and that UCLA “typically grant[s] those permissions.” You note that this was the case a few weeks agowhen “LAFD asked UCLA’s permission to utilize the parking lot as a COVID‐19 testing area and the university granted that permission.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Taking into account these facts, addressing you, Chancellor Block, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Emily Carter, we request the following actions:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E1. \u003C\/b\u003EUCLA leadership issue a public statement that LAPD undertook unauthorized use of the Jackie Robinson Stadium as a field jail on June 1, 2020, \u003Cu\u003Eand\u003C\/u\u003E issue a public letter to Chief Michel Moore demanding both explanation and compensation for LAPD’s use of the property without permission from the lessee, i.e. UCLA. Since this amounts to civil trespassing or the commandeering of property, we ask that UCLA leadership, at the very least, demand compensation for this unauthorized use of its property, if not file a formal complaint and charges.\u0026nbsp; Our UCLA Law faculty stand by to provide guidance and expertise on this matter.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E2.\u003C\/b\u003E Your letter notes that “LAPD has vacated the property” and that UCLA “will inform them that future use as an arrest processing center will not be granted.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; a) We ask that you share a copy of this specific communication with LAPD immediately with the UCLA community including this group of concerned faculty. This will assure us that UCLA has taken a measure of action.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; b) As per our first letter, we continue to ask that you make public all information you have pertaining to the use of Jackie Robinson Stadium by LAPD on June 1, 2020. We would like to know when and how you were notified of such use and by whom.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; c) Given that UCLA occupies Jackie Robinson Stadium and the surrounding land only under the authority of the West Los Angeles Leasing Act of 2016 and the lease agreement between UCLA and the Department of Veteran Affairs executed on December 23, 2016, both of which provide that UCLA’s activities under the lease will principally benefit military veterans, for whose specific benefit the land was granted to the United States Government, we ask that you make public all information regarding the other uses of the land you have given over to the City of Los Angeles since the execution of the lease, and all communications between you, the City of Los Angeles, and the Department of Veterans Affairs regarding such uses, including communications tending to show that\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nsuch activities benefited veterans in any way.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; d) We are not assured that the use of UCLA facilities, whether the Jackie Robinson Stadium or other sites, by LAPD, will not take place in the future. If UCLA leadership, including yourself, was unaware of such use, we are now additionally concerned about the breakdown of lines of communication and reporting within UCLA and between UCLA and city agencies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nOur first letter shared chilling testimony from protesters detained and processed at Jackie Robinson Stadium. We have now heard from more of them, including UCLA students, who were arrested in downtown Los Angeles for curfew violation, bused to the stadium, and held there for seven hours before being processed and released at 3 am onto the streets of Westwood, far from their homes. We have also heard from a criminal defense attorney who was contacted by one of the arrested protesters who needed medical attention. After repeated 9-11 calls received no response, the attorney decided to himself go to the Jackie Robinson Stadium to serve as counsel accompanied by a physician to provide medical help. What the attorney witnessed was an “organized scene” of detention and arrest processing, a massive set-up with many, many buses and scores of LAPD officers. Given the scale, scope, and duration of this field jail, we are incredulous that you and other UCLA leadership were unaware of the situation. How can we be assured that this will not repeat itself, putting many people in harm’s way, only to be later told that it happened without UCLA’s knowledge and permission? Responsibility lies with UCLA whether permission was granted or not.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWe ask that UCLA leadership issue a public statement stating that LAPD will not be able to use UCLA facilities, whether those leased or directly owned by the university.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E3.\u003C\/b\u003E This incident has made it clear to us as concerned faculty that LAPD is not a trustworthy partner for UCLA. What is at stake is much more than remedy for unauthorized use of UCLA facilities. As we stated in our first letter, NOW is the time for UCLA to make a robust commitment to ending collaboration with the police state. Across the country, and especially in Los Angeles, community organizations and justice movements are working hard to ensure that public resources are invested in education, health, and housing rather than in policing. It is vitally important that UCLA follow the lead of other public universities such as the University of Minnesota and take action to sever ties with LAPD. Starting next week, we the UCLA faculty, will form a Divestment Working Group, which will work closely with student and community organizations towards the common goal of Divest\/ Invest.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWe ask that UCLA leadership join us in making an immediate public pledge to such a goal and commit to working with faculty, students, staff, and workers to ensure such outcomes of justice on our campus and for our communities. As faculty, we want UCLA to prioritize the educational mission of teaching and research over policing.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSincerely,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe Executive Committee of Concerned UCLA Faculty\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAnanya Roy\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nLaura Abrams\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nLeisy Abrego\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nHannah Appel\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSarah Haley\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nKelly Lytle Hernández\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGrace Kyungwon Hong\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nMichael Lens\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nShannon Speed\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nNoah Zatz\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nMaite Zubiaurre\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nPhoto Credit: \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/dailybruin.com\/2020\/06\/03\/ucla-leased-jackie-robinson-stadium-facilities-used-by-lapd-to-detain-protestors\"\u003EDaily Bruin\u003C\/a\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/4287111522025979023\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/06\/ucla-faculty-response-to-admin-claim-of.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/4287111522025979023"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/4287111522025979023"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/06\/ucla-faculty-response-to-admin-claim-of.html","title":"UCLA Faculty Response to Admin Claim of Unauthorized LAPD Use of Jackie Robinson Stadium"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Chris Newfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01078395415386100872"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgCGnQhAwKsjQ2tcZftTDB26ZpsV50akmjmUzeV4ah0NcQstLET8jJHfLDX_JQxbFada7QG36dXwHic81oitKz8InX1NP3R1hzLL_pPMyPuuvcFxxXGw5jyWsUVBdWFezafAw9RbCVR61A\/s72-c\/UCLA+detained+protesters.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-94060264439974477"},"published":{"$t":"2020-06-03T09:36:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-06-03T09:40:36.697-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Policing"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Protests"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UCLA"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"UCLA Lets LAPD Use Jackie Robinson Stadium to Detain Protesters: Faculty Denounce"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjt2xPtdMnMr3_WVZ3vWX0AJgK4bulBdQ4utOWFPxBzZ3NazH_ozFUfHdoVJ2jfYN5_cKxDb-m8g8FkpgxRt261BCWQhIYOwG1Hkc2HgL6NaJWo8kLU1O2TMGYY-XGWOGT1RpbpTy3BTPc\/s1600\/UCLA+LAPD+JackieRobinsonStadium+Map.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1069\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"213\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjt2xPtdMnMr3_WVZ3vWX0AJgK4bulBdQ4utOWFPxBzZ3NazH_ozFUfHdoVJ2jfYN5_cKxDb-m8g8FkpgxRt261BCWQhIYOwG1Hkc2HgL6NaJWo8kLU1O2TMGYY-XGWOGT1RpbpTy3BTPc\/s320\/UCLA+LAPD+JackieRobinsonStadium+Map.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\nDear Chancellor Block and Executive Vice-Chancellor Carter [UCLA],\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIt has come to our attention that last evening, June 1, 2020, a UCLA facility, the Jackie Robinson Stadium, was used by LAPD to detain protesters and process arrests, including arrests of UCLA students. We have heard from the National Lawyers Guild-Los Angeles, arrested UCLA students, and other arrested protesters on this matter.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nTestimony from arrested protesters is chilling. Arrested for violation of curfew in downtown Los Angeles, protesters were crowded into LA County Sheriff’s Department buses and brought to UCLA. As they arrived, they looked out of the small windows on these prison buses only to see Bruins logos and signs greeting them at the Jackie Robinson Stadium.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nProtesters were held on these buses at UCLA for five to six hours, without access to restrooms, food, water, information, or medical attention. Indeed, there was a medical emergency on one of the buses, one that received a response from the fire department several hours later. All protocols of social distancing were violated by the LA County Sheriff’s Department and LAPD with protesters deliberately crowded into buses and officers not following rules and recommendations established by the City, the County, and the CDC, including wearing masks. The cruel irony that this took place at a location used as a COVID-19 testing site is not lost on those arrested or on us.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWhen protesters were taken off the buses, they were subject to processing in the parking lot of the stadium and then released, which meant that they were directed to find their way home late at night (between 1:30 am and 3:30 am) from the Jackie Robinson Stadium. Without working cell phones and under conditions of curfew, this was a near impossible task, especially for those unhoused Angelenos who had also been arrested for curfew violation for simply being on the streets of downtown Los Angeles and were now marooned at UCLA.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn addition, protesters, including UCLA students, were arrested in Westwood, again for violation of curfew. They were brought to Jackie Robinson Stadium on LAPD buses after LAPD tried to commandeer a 720 Metro Bus but failed to maneuver it through the streets. We share these details because if you do not already know them, you must know them now.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWe write to express our deep concern about these events and the matter of UCLA collaboration with LAPD and other police forces. In recent days, UCLA leadership has shared statements of solidarity denouncing institutionalized racism and recognizing the importance of protest against such racism. Last night’s use of Jackie Robinson Stadium stands in sharp hypocrisy to these statements. We have heard from our students and we agree that such solidarity statements must be accompanied not by collaboration with the police but by concrete steps that move us towards the divestment of UCLA from LAPD and other forms of policing, similar to the prompt action taken by the President of the University of Minnesota following the murder of Mr. George Floyd. In the coming months, we intend to work towards this goal in partnership with student and community organizations. We look forward to being in dialogue and alliance with you on this.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThat said, we also seek a full accounting of the events of last evening. The Jackie Robinson Stadium is a UCLA facility, implicating all of us in the use of that space to detain protestors and process arrests. It is our understanding that UCLA holds the lease to the Jackie Robinson Stadium and its parking lots, which sit on VA grounds. We ask for a detailed, public statement on the chain of events, decisions, and command lines that led to the use of this facility by LAPD and its mobile processing units last evening and a copy of any agreements that may govern LAPD’s use of this UCLA facility. We also ask for an immediate cessation of the use of this facility or any other UCLA facility by LAPD and other police forces.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nLast evening, UCLA students were arrested for engaging in the constitutionally protected right to peacefully protest against racial injustice, which is pervasive in American policing. They were detained and processed at a stadium on their own campus named after Jackie Robinson, an icon of the long and unfinished struggle for Black freedom. Today many of them are trying to complete final examinations and final assignments. This is not the UCLA education and experience that they deserve.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBut this is not just about our students. As UCLA faculty, we refuse to allow our university to serve as a police outpost at this moment of national uprising and at any other time. As a public university, we serve the public and our students, and this in turn requires dismantling the mechanisms of punishment that have historically caused undeniable harm to communities in Los Angeles.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nA few days ago, we were glad to read your statement which noted: \"Still, we recognize that UCLA also can and must do better. As campus leaders, we recommit ourselves to ensuring that our policies and actions value the lives, safety and dignity of every Bruin.\" This is our chance to do better. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWe look forward to receiving a full and detailed accounting of last evening’s incident and to working with you and the rest of the UCLA leadership on divestment from collaborations with LAPD and other police forces.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSincerely,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAnanya Roy\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nProfessor of Urban Planning, Social Welfare, and Geography\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe Meyer and Renee Luskin Chair in Inequality and Democracy\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDirector, UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nHannah Appel\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAssistant Professor of Anthropology and Global Studies\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAssociate Director, UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nLaura Abrams\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nProfessor and Chair of Social Welfare\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nKaren Umemoto\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nHelen and Morgan Chu Chair, Asian American Studies Center\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nProfessor of Urban Planning and Asian American Studies\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nMichael Lens\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAssociate Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAssociate Director, UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nKelly Lytle Hernández\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nProfessor of History, African American Studies, and Urban Planning\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe Thomas E. Lifka Endowed Chair of History\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDirector, Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDirector, Million Dollar Hoods\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nMishuana Goeman (Tonawanda Band of Seneca)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAssociate Professor of Gender Studies\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nChair of American Indian Studies IDP\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSpecial Advisor to the Chancellor on Native American and Indigenous Affairs\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nEric Avila\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nChair and Professor, César E. Chávez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nProfessor of History and Urban Planning\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGaye Theresa Johnson\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAssociate Professor of African American Studies and Chicana and Chicano Studies\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nLeisy Abrego\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nProfessor of Chicana and Chicano Studies\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nMaite Zubiaurre\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nProfessor of Germanic Languages and Spanish \u0026amp; Portuguese\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAradhna Tripati\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAssociate Professor, UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDirector and Founder, UCLA Center for Diverse Leadership in Science\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nRachel C. Lee\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDirector, Center for the Study of Women\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nProfessor of English, Gender Studies \u0026amp; the Institute of Society and Genetics\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nElizabeth Marchant\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nChair of Gender Studies\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAssociate Professor of Gender Studies and Comparative Literature\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSherene H. Razack\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDistinguished Professor of Gender Studies\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nPenny Kanner Endowed Chair in Women's Studies\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGrace Kyungwon Hong\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAssociate Director, Center for the Study of Women\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nProfessor of Asian American Studies and Gender Studies\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nVinay Lal\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nProfessor of History and Asian American Studies\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nMatt Barreto\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nProfessor of Political Science\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nChris Tilly\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nProfessor of Urban Planning\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nKent Wong\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDirector, UCLA Labor Center\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAbel Valenzuela Jr.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSpecial Advisor to the Chancellor on Immigration Policy\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDirector, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nProfessor of Chicana\/o Studies and Urban Planning\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSonja Diaz,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDirector, Latino Policy and Politics Initiative\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nPaul Ong\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nProfessor of Urban Planning and Asian American Studies\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDirector, UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nVictor Bascara\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nChair and Associate Professor of Asian American Studies\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nRenee Tajima-Peña\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nProfessor of Asian American Studies\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDirector, UCLA Center for EthnoCommunications\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAkhil Gupta\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nProfessor of Anthropology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDirector, Center for India and South Asia\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nChon Noriega\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nProfessor of Film, Television, and Digital Media\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDirector, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nShannon Speed (Chickasaw)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nProfessor of Gender Studies and Anthropology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDirector, American Indian Studies Center\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nChandra L. Ford\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAssociate Professor of Department of Community Health Sciences\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDirector, Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice \u0026amp; Health\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBryonn Bain\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAssociate Professor of African American Studies and World Arts and Cultures\/ Dance\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDirector, UCLA Prison Education Program\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nMarcus Anthony Hunter\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nScott Waugh Endowed Chair in the Division of the Social Sciences\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nProfessor of Sociology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nChair, Department of African American Studies\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nNoah Zatz\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nProfessor of Law\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nEric Sheppard\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nProfessor of Geography\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAnastasia Loukaitou-Sideris\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nProfessor of Urban Planning\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAssociate Dean, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nE. Tendayi Achiume\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nProfessor of Law, Faculty Director, Promise Institute for Human Rights\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nUnited Nations Special Rapporteur on Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIntolerance\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWalter Allen\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDistinguished Professor, Allan Murray Cartter Professor of Higher Education\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSameer M. Ashar\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nVice Dean for Experiential Education and Professor of Law\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDevon Carbado\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAssociate Vice Chancellor of BruinX for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe Honorable Harry Pregerson Professor of Law\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nJessica Cattelino\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nProfessor of Anthropology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nKamari Clark\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nProfessor of Anthropology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nLaToya Baldwin Clark\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAssistant Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nCheryl Harris\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nRosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Professor in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nUCLA Law School\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nPeter Hudson\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nProfessor of History and African American Studies\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nJasleen Kohli\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDirector, Critical Race Studies Program, UCLA School of Law\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nJemima Pierre\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nProfessor of Anthropology and African American Studies\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBrad Sears\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAssociate Dean of Public Interest Law, UCLA School of Law\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nCaroline Streeter\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nProfessor of English\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nJason Throop\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nProfessor and Chair of Anthropology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAlicia Viriani\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAssociate Director of the Criminal Justice Program at UCLA School of Law\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAlex L. Wang\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nProfessor of Law\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nKarin Wang\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nExecutive Director, Epstein Program and Professor from Practice, UCLA School of Law\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAndrew Whitcup\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nLecturer, UCLA School of Law\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDaniel G. Solorzano\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nProfessor of Social Science \u0026amp; Comparative Education\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nKimberlé Crenshaw\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDistinguished Professor of Law, Promise Institute Chair in Human Rights, UCLA School of Law\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBrenda Kim\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nManager of Operations and Events, Office of Public Interest Programs, UCLA School of Law\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nJoseph P. Berra\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nHuman Rights in the Americas Project Director, UCLA School of Law\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nKate Mackintosh\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nExecutive Director, Promise Institute for Human Rights, UCLA School of Law\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nLaura Gómez\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nProfessor of Law\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nFaculty Director, Critical Race Studies Program at UCLA Law\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBeth A. 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Additionally, the University of California has sought to reiterate these principles with the recent creation of a National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement. The free exchange of knowledge—the very cornerstone of the university—is compromised when everyone in our community is encouraged to survey and report on conversations occurring in the course of instruction. Indeed, we all—Senate faculty, lecturers, graduate student instructors, TAs, and students—work tremendously hard and conscientiously to create learning environments in which everyone can speak freely to discuss a wealth of subjects and to address a range of different perspectives. This is an increasingly challenging task in a social\/cultural\/political moment when discourse is highly fractured and fractious, and a mechanism for reporting “class and section disruption,” especially one haunted by the specter of McCarthyism, only exacerbates this trend of fractious and fractured rhetoric. Within such an environment, genuine dialogue and the free exchange of knowledge are nearly impossible. This inhibits academic freedom and ultimately undermines the core mission and values of the University of California and UCSC.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn addition to our fundamental opposition to these practices of surveillance and reporting, the Google form for reporting class and section disruptions raises a number of red flags in terms of academic freedom. Our reading of both APM 010 and the AAUP 1940 statement on academic freedom is that we have a basic right to teach our subjects as we see fit, which we understand to include changing the day’s activities to respond to immediate learning opportunities provided by current events or news of previously unknown research innovations. Moreover, even when AAUP notes the limits to such a right (i.e., that instructors should “be careful not to introduce into their teaching controversial matter which has no relation to their subject”), it nonetheless acknowledges that such a limit is primarily intended to “underscore the need for teachers to avoid persistently intruding material which has no relation to their subject.” Such rights and protections not only safeguard the ability to change the material and\/or the sequence of activities in our courses in order to respond to emergent circumstances but they also allow for the introduction of new material not specified on the syllabus if related to the overall course, so long as we are able to articulate those connections.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nLike you, we are concerned about the quality of our students’ education, and we want to hear from them about their educational experiences. That said, we believe that students already have processes for sharing their experiences, both positive and negative, including grievance procedures and student evaluations of teaching. In addition, we are certain that students make regular use of publicly available email addresses for campus administrators in order to register their concerns and complaints.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGiven the gravity of our concerns about the free exchange of knowledge, we hope that you will disable the link to the Google form and refuse to use any data collected through that mechanism as the grounds for disciplinary measures against faculty and students.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSincerely,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n1. Kimberly Lau, Professor, Literature\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n2. Jessica Taft, Associate Professor, Latin American \u0026amp; Latino Studies\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n3. H. Marshall Leicester, Professor, Literature\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n4. Christine Hong, Associate Professor, Literature and CRES\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n5. Irene Lusztig, Professor, Film + Digital Media\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n6. Megan Thomas, Associate Professor, Politics\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n7. Muriam Haleh Davis, Assistant Professor, History\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n8. Josh Brahinsky, Lecturer, College 10\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n9. Hunter Bivens, Associate Professor, Literature\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n10. Rick Prelinger, Professor, Film + Digital Media\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n11. Dorian Bell, Associate Professor, Literature\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n12. Gail Hershatter, Distinguished Professor, History\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n13. Thomas Serres, Lecturer, Politics\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n14. B. Ruby Rich, Professor, Film + Digital Media\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n15. Peter Limbrick, Professor, Film and Digital Media\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n16. Neda Atanasoski, Professor, Feminist Studies and CRES\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n17. Grace Pena Delgado, Associate Professor, History\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n18. Matthew Lasar, Lecturer, History\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n19. Catherine Jones, Associate Professor, History\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n20. Christine King, Lecturer, Kresge \u0026amp; Porter Colleges\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n21. Leslie Lopez, Continuing Lecturer, Community Studies and Oakes College\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n22. Boreth Ly, Associate Professor, HAVC\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n23. Christie McCullen, Lecturer, Sociology \u0026amp; Oakes College\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n24. Hillary Angelo, Assistant Professor, Sociology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n25. Edmund Burke III, Research Professor of History Emeritus\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n26. Deborah Gould, Associate Professor, Sociology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n27. David H Anthony, Associate Professor, History\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n28. David Brundage, Professor, History\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n29. Edward Kehler, Lecturer, History \u0026amp; Stevenson College\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n30. Regina Day Langhout, Professor, Psychology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n31. Vanita Seth, Associate Professor, Politics\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n32. Ben Leeds Carson, Associate Professor of Music and Kresge College Provost\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n33. Alma Heckman, Assistant Professor, History\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n34. Jody Greene, Professor of Literature and Associate Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n35. Chris Chen, Assistant Professor, Literature\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n36. Fernando Leiva, Associate Professor, Latin American \u0026amp; Latino Studies\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n37. Daniel L. Selden, Professor of Literature\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n38. Megan McDrew, Lecturer, Sociology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n39. Amanda M. Smith, Assistant Professor, Literature\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n40. Sylvanna M. Falcón, Associate Professor, Latin American \u0026amp; Latino Studies\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n41. Eric Porter, Professor, History of Consciousness, History, and CRES\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n42. T. J. Demos, Professor, History of Art and Visual Culture\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n43. Nicolas Davidenko, Associate Professor, Psychology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n44. Shelly Grabe, Professor, Psychology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n45. Zac Zimmer, Assistant Professor, Literature\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n46. Irene Gustafson, Associate Professor, Film and Digital Media\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n47. Jason Samaha, assistant professor, psychology.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n48. Martin Devecka, Assistant Professor, Literature\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n49. Heather Bullock, Professor, Psychology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n50. Margarita Azmitia, Professor, Psychology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n51. Jeff Erbig, Assistant Professor, Latin American \u0026amp; Latino Studies\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n52. Jackie Gehring, Associate Teaching Professor, Politics and Legal Studies\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n53. Kyle Parry, Assistant Professor, History of Art and Visual Culture\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n54. Marcia Ochoa, Associate Professor, Feminist Studies and Interim Provost of Oakes College\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n55. Carla Freccero, Distinguished Professor, Literature \u0026amp; History of Consciousness\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n56. Amy Mihyang Ginther, Assistant Professor, Theater Arts\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n57. A.M. Darke, Assistant Professor, Digital Arts and New Media, Games and Playable Media\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n58. Anjuli Verma, Assistant Professor, Politics Department \u0026amp; Legal Studies Program\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n59. Dard Neuman, Associate Professor, Music\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n60. Maureen Callanan, Professor, Psychology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n61. Karlton Hester, Professor, Music\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n62. A.Laurie Palmer, Professor, Art\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n63. Felicity Amaya Schaeffer, Feminist Studies and CRES\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n64. Julie Guthman, Professor of Social Sciences and Community Studies Program\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n65. Rob Wilson, Professor, Literature\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n66. Cynthia Lewis, Professor, Education\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n67. Madhavi Murty, Assistant Professor, Feminist Studies\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n68. Juned Shaikh, Assistant Professor, History\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n69. Carolyn Dean, Professor, History of Art \u0026amp; Visual Culture\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n70. Warren Sack, Professor, Film \u0026amp; Digital Media\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n71. Amy Lonetree, Associate Professor, History\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n72. Amy Beal, Professor, Music\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n73. Dee Hibbert-Jones, Professor, Art\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n74. Ron Glass, Professor, Education\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n75. Phillip Hammack, Professor and Chair, Psychology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n76. Noriko Aso, Associate Professor, History\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n77. Christina Ravelo, Professor and Chair, Ocean Sciences\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n78. Larry Polansky, Emeritus Professor, Music\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n79. Russell C. Rodríguez, Assistant Professor, Music\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n80. Kent Eaton, Professor and Chair, Politics\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n81. Sara Niedzwiecki, Assistant Professor, Politics\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n82. Vilashini Cooppan, Professor, Literature\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n83. Lindsey Dillon, Assistant Professor, Sociology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n84. Donna Haraway, Distinguished Professor Emerita, History of Consciousness\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n85. Elizabeth Stephens, Professor of Art lee valley\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n86. Marcelo D. Viana Neto, Visiting Assistant Professor, Art \u0026amp; Design: Games and Playable Media\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n87. Elisabeth Cameron, Professor, HAVC\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n88. Anjali Arondekar, Associate Professor, Feminist Studies\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n89. Saskias Casanova, Assistant Professor, Psychology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n90. Kim Cardilla, Lecturer, Psychology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n91. Susan Strome, Distinguished Professor \u0026amp; Chair of MCD Biology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n92. Mark Anderson, Associate Professor, Anthropology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n93. Elliot Anderson, Associate Professor, Art\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n94. Martha Zúñiga, Professor, MCD Biology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n95. Miriam Greenberg, Professor, Sociology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n96. Massimiliano Tomba, History of Consciousness\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n97. Nathaniel Deutsch, Professor, History\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n98. Andrew Mathews, Anthropology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n99. Jerry Zee, Assistant Professor, Anthropology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n100. Lars Fehren-Schmitz, Associate Professor of Anthropology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n101. Mayanthi Fernando, Associate Professor of Anthropology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n102. Jon Daehnke, Associate Professor, Anthropology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n103. Matt O’Hara, Professor, History\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n104. Jeremy Lee, Teaching Professor, MCD Biology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n105. Lindsay Hinck, Professor, MCD Biology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n106. Peter Weiss, Continuing Lecturer, Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n107. James Clifford, Professor Emeritus, History of Consciousness\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n108. Alan Kawamoto, Professor, Psychology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n109. Don Brenneis, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n110. Mathis Hain, Assistant Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n111. Nirvikar Singh, Distinguished Professor of Economics\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n112. Nidhi Mahajan, Assistant Professor, Anthropology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n113. Anna Friz, Assistant Professor, Film \u0026amp; Digital Media\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n114. Nina Treadwell, Professor, Music\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n115. Catherine Ramírez, Associate Professor, Latin American \u0026amp; Latino Studies\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n116. Flora Lu, Professor of Environmental Studies\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n117. Barbara Rogoff, UCSC Foundation Distinguished Professor of Psychology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n118. Campbell Leaper, Professor, Psychology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n119. Chris Benner, Professor, Environmental Studies and Sociology, Dorothy E. Everett Chair of Global Information and Social Entrepreneurship.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n120. Tanya Merchant, Associate Professor, Music\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n121. Julie Bettie, Associate Professor, Sociology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n122. Eva Bertram, Associate Professor, Politics\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n123. Robert Majzler, Lecturer, Psychology and College 10\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n124. Abel Rodriguez, Professor, Statistics\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n125. Kevin MacClaren, Lecturer, Stevenson College\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n126. Lindsey Kuper, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n127. Owen Arden, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n128. micha cárdenas, Assistant Professor, Art and Design: Games and Playable Media, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n129. Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Professor, Computational Media\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n130. Benjamin Storm, Associate Professor, Psychology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n131. Noel Smyth, Lecturer, History\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n132. Karen Bassi, Professor, Literature and Classics\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n133. Alice Yang, Associate Professor, History \u0026amp; CRES and Stevenson Provost\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n134. Eileen Zurbriggen, Professor, Psychology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n135. Manuel Ares, Jr. Distinguished Research Professor, MCD Biology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n136. Joshua Arribere, Assistant Professor, MCD Biology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n137. Sheeva Sabati, Lecturer, Feminist Studies, Oakes, Colleges 9\/10\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n138. Micah Perks, Professor, Literature\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n139. Cynthia Polecritti, Associate Professor, History\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n140. Upasna Sharma, Assistant Professor, MCD Biology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n141. Hiroshi Fukurai, Professor, Sociology and Legal Studies\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n142. Brij Lunine, Lecturer, Writing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n143. Gerald Casel, Associate Professor, Theater Arts\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n144. Dean Mathiowetz, Associate Professor, Politics\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n145. Melissa Gwyn, Associate Professor, Art\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n146. Christopher Connery, Professor, Literature\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n147. Rebecca Covarrubias, Associate Professor, Psychology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n148. Peter Alvaro, Computer Science and Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n149. Diane Gifford-Gonzalez, Distinguished Research Professor, Anthropology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n150. Elizabeth Beaumont, Associate Professor of Politics and Legal Studies\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n151. Mark Baker, Continuing Lecturer, Writing Program and Oakes College\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n152. Bryan Holbrook, Lecturer, Psychology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n153. Janette Dinishak, Associate Professor, Philosophy\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n154. Lisa Rofel, Professor Emeritus and Research Professor, Anthropology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n155. Seshadhri Comandur, Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n156. Kirsten Silva Gruesz, Professor and Graduate Director, Literature\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n157. Dion Farquhar, Continuing Lecturer, Crown College\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n158. Camilla Hawthorne, Assistant Professor, Sociology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n159. Banu Bargu, Associate Professor, History of Consciousness\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n160. Caren Camblin, Continuing Lecturer, Stevenson College \u0026amp; College Ten\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n161. Ronnie D. Lipschutz, Professor of Politics\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n162. Susan Gillman, Distinguished Professor of Literature\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n163. Kiva Silver, Continuing Lecturer, Stevenson, Writing \u0026amp; History\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n164. Ellen Newberry, Continuing Lecturer, Writing Program\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n165. Sandy Archimedes, Continuing Lecturer, Writing Program\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n166. Luca de Alfaro, Professor, Computer Science and Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n167. Zeb Rifaqat, lecturer, Stevenson College\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n168. Erica Halk, Continuing Lecturer, Writing Program\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n169. Patty Gallagher, Professor, Theater Arts\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n170. Phokion G. Kolaitis, Distinguished Professor, Computer Science and Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n171. Martine Schlag, Professor and Chair, Computer Science and Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n172. Megan Moodie, Associate Professor, Anthropology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n173. Gabriela Arredondo, Associate Professor, Latin American \u0026amp; Latino Studies\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n174. Judith Scott, Professor, Education\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n175. James Davis, Professor, Computer Science and Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n176. Katia Obraczka, Professor, Computer Science and Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n177. Maywa Montenegro, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n178. Constance Rockosi, Professor and Co-Chair, Astronomy and Astrophysics\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n179. Sarah-Hope Parmeter, Lecturer in Writing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n180. Robin King, Continuing Lecturer, Writing Program and Oakes College\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n181. Jeremy Gauger, Lecturer, Kresge College\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n182. Alan Christy, Associate Professor, History and Provost of Cowell College\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n183. Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Professor, Astronomy and Astrophysics\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n184. Nico Orlandi, Associate Professor, Philosophy\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n185. Raja GuhaThakurta, Professor and Co-Chair, Astronomy and Astrophysics\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n186. Ruth Murray-Clay, Associate Professor, Astronomy and Astrophysics\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n187. Megan McNamara, Lecturer, Sociology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n188. Nameera Akhtar, Professor, Psychology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n189. Maria Elena Diaz, Assoc Prof. History Dept.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n190. George Bunch, Professor, Education\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n191. Robbie Kubala, Assistant Professor, Philosophy\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n192. Enrique Martinez Leal, Assistant Professor, Art Department\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n193. Patricia Pinho, Associate Professor, Latin American \u0026amp; Latino Studies\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n194. Maya Peterson, Associate Professor, History\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n195. Jenny Reardon, Professor, Sociology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n196. Nicol Hammond, Assistant Professor, Music\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n197. Emily Honig\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n198. Noah Finnegan, Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n199. Claudie Beaulieu, Assistant Professor, Ocean Sciences\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n200. Andy Skemer, Associate Professor, Astronomy \u0026amp; Astrophysics\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n201. Melanie Springer, Associate Professor, Politics\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n202. Judith Aissen, Professor Emerita, Linguistics\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n203. Mark Nash, Professor, Arts\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n204. Isaac Julien, Distinguished Professor, Arts\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n205. Jennifer Derr, Associate Professor of History\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n206. Juan Poblete, Professor, Literature\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n207. Greg O’Malley, Associate Professor, History\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n208. Robert Boltje, Professor of Mathematics\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n209. Jeremy Hourigan, Associate Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n210. Camilo Gómez-Rivas, associate professor, Literature\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n211. 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text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh4RtbHD6CmtaWrEx13A6D3WnUk7CvRpkLTdidZhK3sMgo-xqzTcvsS-Te0rq8MplyS1Aq1EJyhbhGM4y-QKGExVD8ONOu5EgdyvzwNzPYapopFPg7f10Pv5wWwt55C-YoDR8c-_qx7Kso\/s1600\/General-Barrows-Armistice-Day+1926.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"480\" data-original-width=\"600\" height=\"256\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh4RtbHD6CmtaWrEx13A6D3WnUk7CvRpkLTdidZhK3sMgo-xqzTcvsS-Te0rq8MplyS1Aq1EJyhbhGM4y-QKGExVD8ONOu5EgdyvzwNzPYapopFPg7f10Pv5wWwt55C-YoDR8c-_qx7Kso\/s320\/General-Barrows-Armistice-Day+1926.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003EComments from the 150th Anniversary Symposium of the University of California Academic Senate, Oakland, California, October 27, 2018,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003Eby \u003C\/i\u003EDylan Rodríguez,\u003Ci\u003E Chair of the UC Riverside Academic Senate, Professor, Department of Media and Cultural Studies\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003E[Photo: Gen. David Barrows, Armistice Day, 1926, courtesy of \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.foundsf.org\/index.php?title=File:General-Barrows-Armistice-Day.jpg\"\u003EFoundSF\u003C\/a\u003E.]\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nLet us reconsider the full historical context of the University of California’s founding moment and the context in which it coined its motto, “Fiat Lux.”\u0026nbsp; A brief reflection on the UC’s political, geographic, and historical conditions of possibility may offer some vital complexity and depth to recent college- and university-based discourses on free speech and academic freedom, while raising deeper questions about the notions of “speech” and “freedom” in-and-of-themselves.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe founding of the University of California represents a particular confrontation between Western Euroamerican modernity and the high point of Manifest Destiny—a nation-building cultural, political, and military regime that is inseparable from the UC’s academic and juridical infrastructure.\u0026nbsp; During this extended period, the UC’s founding faculty and administrators were engaged in a variety of global colonial projects, which is to say racial colonial projects, including the US conquest and protracted colonial governance of the Philippines.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAs a Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley, i spent a lot of time in a building named after David Barrows, President of the University of California from 1919-1923.\u0026nbsp; Barrows had an interest in California Indians, particularly the Cahuilla Tribe, the topic of his Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Chicago (where else?).\u0026nbsp; Before he became the UC president, Barrows played a pivotal role in the US colonization of the Philippines, during which the US military was engaged in a genocidal military campaign to liquidate and neutralize indigenous resistance to colonial occupation throughout the archipelago.\u0026nbsp; As people and ecologies were destroyed, burned, and displaced, Barrows accepted an appointment as Chief of the “Bureau of Non-Christian Tribes of the Philippine Islands.”\u0026nbsp; I imagine that if he were awakened from his mortal slumber, President Barrows might concede that the conditions of his own “academic freedom,” of his freedom to speak and his “freedom of speech,” were not only entangled in but constituted by his lifelong engagements with projects of colonial dominance, from the Cahuilla to the “non-Christian” Philippine tribes.\u0026nbsp; “Fiat Lux” indeed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAcross these and other historical political geographies of racial-colonial dominance, modern law, rights, and disciplinary academic knowledges affirm white life’s ascendancy over all other life.\u0026nbsp; This has been the historical, if generally tacit mission statement of the modern university, including the University of California.\u0026nbsp; War against other life, culture, ecology, and sociality is the genesis of law, rights, and university epistemologies in this instance, structuring the “civility” and the “freedom” that disciplines those who are on the historical margins of that civil society, the underside of the thing called Civilization.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn this sense, it is horrifically appropriate that so many of us engaged in the counter-knowledge productions of critical ethnic studies, queer studies, gender and feminist studies, and decolonial studies have encountered David Barrows’ bronze bust in that building at UC Berkeley.\u0026nbsp; His visage reminds us that the intellectual space and infrastructure to engage in such counter-knowledge production is the outcome of intense, rigorous, collective social movement that critically extends the entitlements of academic freedom while confronting the ways in which the institutional stability constructed around the edifices of academic freedom is actively policed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAllow me to turn to the fact of policing in the second half of my reflections on this 150th anniversary.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nA spectacle of police violence at UC Davis on November 18, 2011 catalyzed a national and international response, fixated on the vulnerable bodies of young white people engaged in an act of civil disobedience. (With all due respect to the people of color who were also in the line of fire at Davis, my contention is that their bodies were not the ones with which the national and international response was primarily concerned, nor was their vulnerability centrally responsible for inciting this global outrage in the first place.)\u0026nbsp; Largely displaced by the righteous outcry over the UC Davis police’s pepper spraying of students in November 2011 was a more massive and militarized display of police force\/violence that occurred at my home campus of UC Riverside two months later, on January 19, 2012.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nOn this day, UCR students were shot with “less than lethal” police pellets during protests of tuition\/fee increases at a meeting of the UC Regents.\u0026nbsp; (Here i will gently suggest that we modify our language to acknowledge that these actions might be more comprehensively described as “debt protests.”)\u0026nbsp; In anticipation of this student-led demonstration, police were mobilized from every UC campus other than Davis and Merced, supplemented by officers from the City of Riverside Police Department and the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department.\u0026nbsp; Police helicopters periodically circled over the protest, while officers appeared to assume sniper positions at strategic high points on several campus buildings.\u0026nbsp; The climate was thick with police presence, and the pageantry of political intimidation represented a massive show of force against the students, faculty, staff, and ordinary people who populated the crowd.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjej8oTYZeTA8gta0Lt8Alm1yChb4CUDrfO2r31mYwQk2bm5bamlIxe6qtYb8CEt-_vA0HzYpvKbBAwfD3swDlEaOcMhLcEZqm-WHjLNJC8AS6OTCUmo4QNFiUYMTN328unXuqQXFloyMM\/s1600\/Riverside+CopLine+DylanRodriguez.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1200\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjej8oTYZeTA8gta0Lt8Alm1yChb4CUDrfO2r31mYwQk2bm5bamlIxe6qtYb8CEt-_vA0HzYpvKbBAwfD3swDlEaOcMhLcEZqm-WHjLNJC8AS6OTCUmo4QNFiUYMTN328unXuqQXFloyMM\/s640\/Riverside+CopLine+DylanRodriguez.jpg\" width=\"613\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003ERiot police confronting student protest at UC Regents meeting, UC Riverside, January 19, 2012 (photo courtesy of the author)\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThis police presence starkly contrasted with the protest’s well-disciplined adherence to tactics of “nonviolence.” (By way of definition, i do not consider loud chants, intense and vitriolic rhetorics of protest, militant refusal to disperse an alleged “unlawful assembly” or sit-down blockades to constitute “violence”; further, even if one wishes to perform the academic gymnastics of labeling such activities as forms of discursive, symbolic, existential, and\/or immanent violence, they are not of a kind remotely comparable to the aforementioned marshaling of legitimated state violence.) For reasons i have explained elsewhere, we should not be surprised that UC Riverside’s scene of police repression—images of which were easily accessible via e-mail listservs, public YouTube videos, Facebook photos, and the like—did not attract remotely the kind of attention and righteous reaction as did the incident at UC Davis.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThere is something structurally white supremacist about how expressions of outrage and institutional shaming over the UC Davis police spectacle seemed to be fueled by an overidentification with (historically white) university campuses as places of presumed innocence, wherein enrolled and employed (white) bodies are presumed to presume innocence.\u0026nbsp; On the other hand, UC Riverside students generally signify (and biographically reflect) the normalized policing and criminalization of Black, Native, and Brown people—young and old, urban and rural, transgender, queer, and straight.\u0026nbsp; Such bodies—such people—are incapable of extracting the consensus of liberal outrage surrounding (and ultimately protecting) the repressive university policing of white, able-bodied college youth.\u0026nbsp; Thus, while all campus policing is fundamentally “political,” only a select few of its most acute forms are addressed as such.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThere is a punchline to this story that takes place in a former UCR Chancellor’s living room…\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDuring this period, Chancellor Tim White periodically invited groups of department chairs to his residence for friendly dinners, during which he engaged us in conversation about things we felt were important to the campus.\u0026nbsp; During the dinner i attended, a fellow departmental chair and i raised concerns over the heavy handedness of the police response to the nonviolent, student-led action of January 19.\u0026nbsp; (Other chairs seemed either unaware of this matter or uninterested in raising such criticisms of police violence and administrative complicity.)\u0026nbsp; After eating, the fellow chair and i sat with Chancellor White on his living room couch.\u0026nbsp; He looked us both in the eye and, in a most calm and reassuring tone, expressed sympathy with our concerns and informed us that he had taken pains to instruct the police to shoot the student protestors “below the knees.”\u0026nbsp; My colleague and i took turns staring at each other and the floor.\u0026nbsp; Not long thereafter, i watched Chancellor White shed crocodile tears over the financial hardships of a Black woman undergraduate on an episode of the reality show “Undercover Boss.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nI offer these reflections to deprovincialize and radically contextualize the concepts and jurisprudence of free speech and academic freedom beyond the institutional mythologies of “Fiat Lux.”\u0026nbsp; Allow me to conclude with a set of overlapping questions that may offer some productive reframing of our ongoing discussions:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EWho are the assumptive subjects of “free speech” and “academic freedom?”\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EHow are these notions of liberty (particularly as they are inseparable from the jurisprudential regime that produces them as such) structured in relations of gender, race, sexual, and colonial dominance in the long historical and recurrent-present tense?\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EHow are free speech and academic freedom actually inhabited by people whose speech and thought are constituted in relations of dominance, such that the underlying humanist allegation at the core of both terms is (perhaps radically) demystified and disrupted?\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EWhat forms of policing are martialed through the politics of free speech and academic freedom?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWhile both \"free speech\" and \"academic freedom\" suggest discourses of liberty, i would argue that they cannot be separated from the densely historical, gendered racial-colonial logics that persistently claim to secure such “freedom” and “liberty” against lurking threats from what W.E.B. DuBois famously called “the darker peoples of the world.”"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3696469701003866473\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2018\/11\/fiat-lux-free-speech-and-police-violence.html#comment-form","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/3696469701003866473"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/3696469701003866473"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2018\/11\/fiat-lux-free-speech-and-police-violence.html","title":"Fiat Lux, Free Speech, and Police Violence"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Chris Newfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01078395415386100872"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh4RtbHD6CmtaWrEx13A6D3WnUk7CvRpkLTdidZhK3sMgo-xqzTcvsS-Te0rq8MplyS1Aq1EJyhbhGM4y-QKGExVD8ONOu5EgdyvzwNzPYapopFPg7f10Pv5wWwt55C-YoDR8c-_qx7Kso\/s72-c\/General-Barrows-Armistice-Day+1926.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"1"}}]}});